Super League is the top-level professional rugby league club competition in Europe. As the result of a sponsorship deal, it is officially the Stobart Super League. The League has fourteen teams: thirteen from England and one from France. The current champions are Leeds.

Super League began in 1996, replacing the RFL Championship and switching from a winter to a summer season. Each team plays 27 games between February and September: 13 home games, 13 away games and a Magic Weekend game at a neutral venue. At the end of the season, the top eight teams enter play-offs leading to the Grand Final which determines the champions.

St Helens, Leeds, Bradford and Wigan have been the dominant teams in the Super League. The Super League champions play against the winners of the Australasian National Rugby League in the World Club Challenge.

The competition was first mooted during the Australian Super League war as a way for Rupert Murdoch to gain the upper hand during the battle for broadcasting supremacy with the Australian Rugby League. Murdoch also approached the British clubs to form Super League. A large sum of money aided the decision, and the competition got under way in 1996. Part of the deal saw rugby league switch from a winter to a summer season.

Stuart Fielden (born 14 September 1979 in Halifax, West Yorkshire) is an English professional rugby league footballer for Wigan of Super League. A Great Britain international representative Prop, or Second-row, he previously played club football for Bradford with whom he won the 2001, 2003 and 2005 Super League Championships before he moved to Wigan in 2006, winning the 2010 Super League Championship with them.

Stuart grew up in the village of Old Town near Hebden Bridge. It was not until he was in his teens that he started playing rugby league with Halifax amateur side Illingworth. It was during his time with Illingworth that Bradford signed him.

Stuart made his Bradford debut against his hometown club Halifax in May 1998. He made rapid progress alongside experienced props Joe Vagana, Brian McDermott and Paul Anderson and was named Super League's young player of the year in 2000

in 2005 Fielden narrowly escaped the 2004 Inidan Ocean tsunami while holidaying in Thailand.

Fielden won numerous honours and trophies while at Bradford, with a trademark aggressive style that saw him establish a reputation as one of the best and most feared frontrowers in the world. In February 2006 he was won his last trophy with Bradford, being named Man of the Match and scoring two tries in the World Club Challenge match against Wests Tigers. Many claimed following this match that Stuart was indeed the best prop in the world. He did not miss a game for the club in his last two seasons at Bradford and was an automatic choice for the Great Britain national rugby league team for the majority of his Bradford career.

Hao Shuai (simplified Chinese: 郝帅; traditional Chinese: 郝帥; pinyin: Hǎo Shuài. born October 1, 1983 in Tianjin, China) is a Chinese table tennis player.

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Xu Xin (simplified Chinese: 许昕; traditional Chinese: 許昕; pinyin: Xǔ Xīn; born January 8, 1990 in Jiangsu, China) is a Chinese table tennis player.

He uses a blade Stiga Rosewood V, and in his forehand a Hurricane III (Blue sponge) and a Tenergy 64 in his backhand.

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Dimitrij Ovtcharov (born September 2, 1988 in Kiev) is a Ukrainian-born German table tennis player. As of December 2011, he is ranked #10 in the world by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Ovtcharov won the silver medal as part of the German men's team, together with Timo Boll and Christian Süß. He used a special technique in his serves, which was later picked by TIME as one of the top 50 innovations of 2008.

On September 22, 2010 Ovtcharov had been suspended by the German Table Tennis Federation (DTTB) due to a positive A-sample test for Clenbuterol that may be used as performance-enhancing substance. Ovtcharov himself denied the doping accusation and requested a B-sample analysis which still tested positive. After hearings and further investigations, the hair sample voluntarily offered by Ovtcharov showed no evidence of clenbuterol and its abuse. DTTB later unanimously decided to abolish the suspension on October 15, 2010. The decision was endorsed by ITTF.