More than 40,000 players registered to take part in the World Squash Day on Oct. 21, for matches that were played all over the world. Organizers claim a world record for the biggest sports match in history. World Squash Day was launched in 2002 in honor of Derek Sword, a former Scottish player who moved to America and was the squash champion at the New York Athletic Club. Sword worked at the World Trade Center and was killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The theme for this year was again to support squash's Olympic aspirations and, in particular, to back the bid by the World Squash Federation for inclusion in the 2020 Games, which will be voted on by the International Olympic Committee in 2013. More than 800 clubs from over 70 nations joined in.

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