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2008 Summer Paralympics

Index 2008 Summer Paralympics

The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games (Chinese: 第十三屆残疾人奥林匹克运动会), the 13th Paralympics, took place in Beijing, China from September 6 to 17, 2008. [1]

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ABC (Australian TV channel)

ABC (formerly known as The ABC National Television Service or ABC-TV from 1956 until 2008, and as ABC1 from 2008 until 2014) is a national public television network in Australia.

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ABC Television

ABC Television is a service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation launched in 1956.

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ABN (TV station)

ABN is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television station in Sydney.

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Andy Lau

Andy Lau Tak-wah, BBS, MH, JPFocus Film.

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Archery at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Archery at the 2008 Summer Paralympics consists of nine events, five for men and four for women.

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Athlete

An athlete (also sportsman or sportswoman) is a person who competes in one or more sports that involve physical strength, speed or endurance.

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Athletics at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Athletics at the 2008 Summer Paralympics were held in Beijing National Stadium from September 8 to September 17.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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AzTV

AzTV or Azerbaijan Television (Azərbaycan Televiziyası) is a state-controlled national television channel in Azerbaijan.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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Beihang University Gymnasium

Beihang University Gymnasium (sometime listed as the Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics Gymnasium) is a 5,400-seat indoor arena located on the campus of Beihang University in Beijing, China.

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Beijing

Beijing, formerly romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China, the world's second most populous city proper, and most populous capital city.

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Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium

Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium is a 5,000-seat indoor arena located on the campus of Beijing Institute of Technology in Beijing, China.

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Beijing National Aquatics Center

The Beijing National Aquatics Center, also officially known as the National Aquatics Center, and colloquially known as the Water Cube, is an aquatics center that was built alongside Beijing National Stadium in the Olympic Green for the swimming competitions of the 2008 Summer Olympics.

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Beijing National Indoor Stadium

The National Indoor Stadium (official name), is an indoor stadium that is located in the Olympic Green in Beijing, China.

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Beijing National Stadium

Beijing National Stadium, officially the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, is a stadium in Beijing.

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Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium

The Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium is an indoor arena located on the campus of the University of Science and Technology Beijing.

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Beijing Shooting Range Hall

The Beijing Shooting Range Hall is a shooting hall located in Shijingshan District, Beijing.

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Boccia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Boccia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics consisted of seven events.

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Botswana at the Paralympics

Botswana made its Paralympic Games début at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, sending a single representative (Tshotlego Morama) to compete in athletics.

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Burundi at the Paralympics

Burundi made its Paralympic Games début at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, sending three male athletes to compete in racing events for arm amputees (T46 category).

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian federal Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster for both radio and television.

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CCTV-1

CCTV-1 (China Central Television) is the primary channel in CCTV, the national flagship terrestrial television network of the People's Republic of China.

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CCTV-5

CCTV-5, also known as the Sports Channel, part of the China Central Television family of networks, is the main sports broadcaster in the People's Republic of China.

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CCTV-7

CCTV-7 is a flagship free-to-air terrestrial television channel of the CCTV in the People's Republic of China.

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China Agricultural University Gymnasium

The China Agricultural University Gymnasium is an indoor arena located on the campus of the China Agricultural University in Beijing.

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China Central Television

China Central Television (formerly Beijing Television), commonly abbreviated as CCTV, is the predominant state television broadcaster in the People's Republic of China.

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China National Convention Center

The China National Convention Center, previously known as the Olympic Green Convention Center is a convention center located in the Olympic Green in Beijing.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases mutually unintelligible, language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

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Chronological summary of the 2008 Summer Paralympics

This page contains notable highlights from the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China.

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Cycling at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Cycling at the 2008 Summer Paralympics consisted of 44 events in two main disciplines, track cycling and road cycling.

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Defamation

Defamation, calumny, vilification, or traducement is the communication of a false statement that, depending on the law of the country, harms the reputation of an individual, business, product, group, government, religion, or nation.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Equestrian at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Equestrian at the 2008 Summer Paralympics consisted of eleven dressage events.

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Eurosport

Eurosport is a pan-European television sports network, owned and operated by Discovery, Inc. Discovery took a 20% minority interest share in December 2012, and became the majority shareholder in the Eurosport venture with TF1 in January 2014, taking a 51% share of the company.

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Faroe Islands

The Faroe Islands (Føroyar; Færøerne), sometimes called the Faeroe Islands, is an archipelago between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic, about halfway between Norway and Iceland, north-northwest of Scotland.

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Fireworks

Fireworks are a class of low explosive pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic and entertainment purposes.

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Flag of China

The flag of China, also known as the Five-star Red Flag, is a red field charged in the canton (upper corner nearest the flagpole) with five golden stars.

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Football 5-a-side at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

5-a-side football at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was held at the Olympic Green Hockey Field from September 7 and September 17.

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Football 7-a-side at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

7-a-side football at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was held at the Olympic Green Hockey Field from September 8 to September 16.

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France Télévisions

France Télévisions (stylized as France.tv) is the French public national television broadcaster.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Fu Niu Lele

Fu Niu Lele (literally "good-luck ox happy"), was the mascot of the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing.

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Gabon at the Paralympics

Gabon made its Paralympic Games début at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, sending a single athlete (wheelchair athlete Thierry Mabicka) to compete in track and field.

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Georgia at the Paralympics

Georgia made its Paralympic Games début at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, sending a single representative to compete in powerlifting.

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Goalball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Goalball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was held in the Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium from September 7 to September 14.

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Guinea

Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (République de Guinée), is a country on the western coast of Africa.

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Haiti at the Paralympics

Haiti first participated in the Paralympic Games in 2008, sending a single athlete, Nephtalie Jean-Louis, to compete in powerlifting.

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Han Hong (singer)

Han Hong (Tibetan name Yangchen Drolma དབྱངས་ཅན་སྒྲོལ་མ་), is a singer and songwriter of mixed Tibetan and Han ethnicity.

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Hong Kong Sports Institute

The Hong Kong Sports Institute is a sports institute in the Fo Tan, Sha Tin district of Hong Kong.

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Hou Bin

Hou Bin, born in Jiamusi, Heilongjiang Province, in 1975,, Xinhua, September 7, 2008 is a Chinese track and field athlete who specialises in the high jump.

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Hu Jintao

---- Hu Jintao (born 21 December 1942) is a Chinese politician who was the paramount leader of China from 2002 to 2012.

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International

International mostly means something (a company, language, or organization) involving more than a single country.

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International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee (IOC; French: Comité International Olympique, CIO) is a Swiss private non-governmental organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, which is the authority responsible for the modern Olympic Games.

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International Paralympic Committee

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC; Internationales Paralympisches Komitee) is an international non-profit organisation and the global governing body for the Paralympic Movement.

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Judo at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

The Judo competition of the 2008 Summer Paralympics was held in Beijing Workers' Gymnasium from September 7 to September 9.

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Laoshan Mountain Bike Course

The Laoshan Mountain Bike Course is a mountain bike cycling venue located in western Beijing, China adjacent to the Laoshan Velodrome.

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List of 2008 Summer Paralympics medal winners

The 2008 Summer Paralympics were held in Beijing, People's Republic of China, from 6 September to 17 September 2008.

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Live television

Live television is a television production broadcast in real-time, as events happen, in the present.

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Macau

Macau, officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory on the western side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.

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Ming Tombs Reservoir

The Ming Tombs Reservoir or the Shisanling Reservoir (十三陵水库) is a dam in Changping District of northern Beijing.

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Montenegro at the Paralympics

Montenegro made its Paralympic Games début at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, following its split with Serbia.

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National anthem

A national anthem (also state anthem, national hymn, national song, etc.) is generally a patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history, traditions, and struggles of its people, recognized either by a nation's government as the official national song, or by convention through use by the people.

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National Paralympic Committee

A National Paralympic Committee (NPC) is a national constituent of the worldwide Paralympic movement.

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National Tennis Center, Beijing

The National Tennis Center, is a tennis centre located in the Olympic Green.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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NHK

is Japan's national public broadcasting organization.

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NHK General TV

is the main television service of NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation).

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NRK

NRK (an abbreviation of the Norwegian: Norsk rikskringkasting AS, generally expressed in English as the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and the largest media organisation in Norway.

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Ode to Joy

"Ode to Joy" (German), is an ode written in the summer of 1785 by German poet, playwright, and historian Friedrich Schiller and published the following year in Thalia.

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Olympia, Greece

Olympia (Greek: Ὀλυμπία;; Olymbía), a sanctuary of ancient Greece in Elis on the Peloponnese peninsula, is known for having been the site of the Olympic Games in classical times.

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Olympic Green Archery Field

The Olympic Green Archery Field was one of nine temporary venues for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

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Olympic Green Hockey Field

The Olympic Green Hockey Field was one of nine temporary venues used for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

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Paralympic Games

The Paralympic Games is a major international multi-sport event involving athletes with a range of disabilities, including impaired muscle power (e.g. paraplegia and quadriplegia, muscular dystrophy, post-polio syndrome, spina bifida), impaired passive range of movement, limb deficiency (e.g. amputation or dysmelia), leg length difference, short stature, hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis, vision impairment and intellectual impairment.

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Peking University Gymnasium

Peking University Gymnasium, nicknamed China's Spine, is an indoor arena located in the southeastern part of Peking University in Beijing, China.

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Philip Craven

Sir Philip Craven (born 4 July 1950) is an English sports administrator and former athlete.

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Philippe Juvin

Philippe Juvin (born 1 February 1964, in Orléans, Loiret) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the Île-de-France constituency.

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Pinyin

Hanyu Pinyin Romanization, often abbreviated to pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese in mainland China and to some extent in Taiwan.

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Powerlifting at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Powerlifting at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was held in the Beihang University Gymnasium from September 9 to September 16.

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President of the People's Republic of China

The President of the People's Republic of China is the head of state of the People's Republic of China.

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Qingdao

Qingdao (also spelled Tsingtao) is a city in eastern Shandong Province on the east coast of China.

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Qingdao International Sailing Centre

The Qingdao International Sailing Centre is a sailing marina located on the former site of the Beihai Shipyard by Qingdao's Fushan Bay at Shandong Province in China.

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Rowing at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Rowing at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was held in Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park from 9 September to 11 September.

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Sailing at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Eighty athletes representing 25 countries in three keelboat classes - the 2.4mR, the SKUD 18, and the Sonar, took part in sailing in the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

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Shooting at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Shooting at the 2008 Summer Paralympics consisted of twelve events.

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Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park

The Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park was built for the rowing, canoeing and 10 km open-water swimming events in the 2008 Summer Olympics.

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Simplified Chinese characters

Simplified Chinese characters are standardized Chinese characters prescribed in the Table of General Standard Chinese Characters for use in mainland China.

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SporTV

SporTV is a Brazilian cable television network that has its programming based on all sports, launched in 1991 by Globosat.

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Stoke Mandeville

Stoke Mandeville is a village and civil parish in the Vale of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Sveriges Television

SVT is the Swedish national public TV broadcaster, funded by a television licence fee payable by all owners of television sets, and set by the Riksdag.

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Swimming at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

The swimming events of the 2008 Summer Paralympics were held in the Beijing National Aquatics Center between September 7 and September 15, 2008.

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Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was held in the Peking University Gymnasium from September 7 to September 15.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.

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Temple of Heaven

The is an imperial complex of religious buildings situated in the southeastern part of central Beijing.

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Terra (company)

Terra Networks, S.A. is a Spanish Internet multinational company with headquarters in Spain and offices in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, the United States and Peru.

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Time in China

The time in China follows a single standard time offset of UTC+08:00 (eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time), despite China spanning five geographical time zones.

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Tshotlego Morama

Tshotlego Morama, born in Lethakane in 1987, is a Motswana Paralympic sprinter.

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Turkish Radio and Television Corporation

The Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, also known as TRT (Turkish: Türkiye Radyo ve Televizyon Kurumu), is the national public broadcaster of Turkey and was founded in 1964.

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TV Guide

TV Guide is a bi-weekly American magazine that provides television program listings information as well as television-related news, celebrity interviews and gossip, film reviews, crossword puzzles, and, in some issues, horoscopes.

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Union for a Popular Movement

The Union for a Popular Movement (Union pour un mouvement populaire; UMP) was a centre-right political party in France that was one of the two major contemporary political parties in France along with the centre-left Socialist Party (PS).

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Universal Sports

Universal Sports was an American sports-oriented digital cable and satellite television network.

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UTC+08:00

UTC+08:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +08:00.

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Volleyball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Sitting volleyball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was held in the China Agricultural University Gymnasium from 7 September to 15 September.

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Wheelchair basketball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

The Wheelchair Basketball competition of the 2008 Summer Paralympics is held in Beijing National Indoor Stadium and Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium between September 7, 2008 and September 16, 2008.

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Wheelchair fencing at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Wheelchair fencing at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was held in the Fencing Gymnasium of the Olympic Green Convention Centre from 14 September to 17 September.

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Wheelchair rugby at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Wheelchair rugby at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was held in the Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium from 12 September to 16 September.

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Wheelchair tennis at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Wheelchair tennis at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was held at the Olympic Green Tennis Centre from 8 September to 15 September.

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Workers Indoor Arena

The Workers' Gymnasium (official name) is an indoor arena located west of the Workers Stadium in Beijing, China.

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2004 Summer Paralympics

The 2004 Summer Paralympics (Θερινοί Παραολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004), the 12th Summer Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee, held in Athens, Greece from 17 September to 28 September 2004.

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2006 Winter Paralympics

The 2006 Winter Paralympic Games (Italian: IX Giochi paralimpici invernali), the ninth Winter Paralympics, took place in Turin, Italy from 10 to 19 March 2006.

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2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games

The 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games were held in Shanghai, China.

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2008 Summer Olympics

The 2008 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad and commonly known as Beijing 2008, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 8 to 24 August 2008 in Beijing, China.

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2008 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony

The 2008 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony was held at the Beijing National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest.

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2008 Summer Paralympics medal table

The medal table of the 2008 Summer Paralympics ranks the participating National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) by the number of gold medals won by their athletes during the competition.

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2008 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony

The 2008 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony was held at the Beijing National Stadium on September 6, 2008 just two weeks after the end of the 2008 Summer Olympics.

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2009 Summer Deaflympics

The 2009 Summer Deaflympics, officially known as the 21st Summer Deaflympics, is an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from September 5 to 15 September 2009 in Taipei, Taiwan (Republic of China).

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2010 Winter Paralympics

The 2010 Winter Paralympics, officially the X Paralympic Winter Games (French: Les Xes Jeux paralympiques d'hiver), or the tenth Winter Paralympics, were held in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada from March 12 to 21, 2010.

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2012 Summer Paralympics

The 2012 Summer Paralympics, the 14th Summer Paralympic Games, and also more generally known as the London 2012 Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), that took place in London, United Kingdom from 29 August to 9 September 2012.

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2022 Winter Paralympics

The 2022 Winter Paralympics (Chinese: 第十三届冬季残疾人奥林匹克运动会), officially known as the XIII Paralympic Winter Games, is an international winter multi-sport event for disabled athletes that is scheduled to take place in Beijing, People's Republic of China, from 4 to 13 March 2022.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Summer_Paralympics

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