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The [[Cowal Highland Gathering]], better known as the Cowal Games, is held in [[Dunoon]], [[Scotland]], every August. It is the largest Highland games in the world,{{efn|Cowal Highland Gathering can be verified as the world's largest highland games on the Official Scottish Tourist Board Website at VisitScotland.com.}} attracting around 3,500 competitors and somewhere in the region of 23,000 spectators<ref name="CHG1">{{cite web |title = Cowal Highland Gatcitationhering |url = http://www.cowalgathering.com/spectators.php |access-date=10 July 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120809091943/http://www.cowalgathering.com/spectators.php |archive-date=9 August 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.cowalgathering.com|title= Cowal Highland Gathering|work= cowalgathering.com|access-date=13 October 2019}}</ref> from around the globe. Worldwide, however, it is exceeded in terms of spectators by three gatherings in the United States: the estimated 30,000<ref>{{cite web |title = Grandfather Mountain Highland Games Fast Facts |date = 12 July 2010 |url = http://www.grandfather.com/about-grandfather-mountain/media/highland-games-press-room/gmhg-fast-facts }}</ref> that attend [[Grandfather Mountain]] in [[North Carolina]]; the New Hampshire Highland Games & Festival, which attracts over 35,000 annually; and the even larger Northern California gathering—the largest in the Northern Hemisphere<ref name="Scottish Games Draw Record Crowds">{{cite web |title = Scottish Games Draw Record Crowds |url = http://www.independentnews.com/scottish-games-draw-record-crowds/collection_bd18c91c-5751-11e5-9720-afdde78f41b4.html |website = The Independent |access-date = 20 September 2015}}</ref>—that has taken place every year since 1866.<ref>{{cite web |title = 150th Scottish Highland Gathering & Games |url = http://thescottishgames.com |website = thescottishgames.com |access-date = 20 September 2015 }}</ref> This event, the Scottish Highland Gathering and Games, is currently held on Labor Day weekend in [[Pleasanton, California]]; the sesquicentennial event held on 5–6 September 2015 attracted record crowds close to 50,000.<ref name="Scottish Games Draw Record Crowds" />
The games are claimed to have influenced [[Baron Pierre de Coubertin]] when he was planning the [[1896 Summer Olympics#Reviving the Games|revival of the Olympic Games]]. De Coubertin saw a display of Highland games at the [[Paris Exhibition of 1889]].<ref>{{cite news |url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article7107301.ece |title = Highland games were the model for modern Olympics |date = 25 April 2010 |work = The Times |access-date = 3 May 2010 |location = London, England |first = Marc |last = Horne }}</ref>{{efn|The website of the International Wrestling Association reports rather more expansively on the role of the 1889 Paris event and its effect on the development of the Olympics, considering it to have had a "huge impact" on world sport. An article published in 2004 in the ''Christian Science Monitor'' points to two other events, including that of Much Wenlock, a small English village in Shropshire.}}
== History ==
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