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Adweek
Adweek is a weekly American advertising trade publication that was first published in 1978.
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AMI-tv
AMI-tv is a Canadian, English-language, digital cable specialty channel owned by the non-profit organization Accessible Media.
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Antônio Carlos Jobim
Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (January 25, 1927December 8, 1994), also known as Tom Jobim, was a Brazilian composer, pianist, songwriter, arranger and singer.
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Archery at the Summer Paralympics
Para-archery has been contested at every Summer Paralympic Games since they were first held in 1960.
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Athletics at the Summer Paralympics
Athletics has been contested at every Summer Paralympics since the first games in 1960.
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Attitude (TV series)
Attitude is a New Zealand television programme showcasing the lives of people living with disability.
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Bahman Golbarnezhad
Bahman Golbarnezhad (بهمن گلبارنژاد, 12 June 1968 – 17 September 2016) was an Iranian Paralympic racing cyclist competing in C4 classification events and an earlier powerlifter.
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Barra da Tijuca
Barra da Tijuca (mostly referenced as Barra) is a neighborhood or bairro in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, located in the western portion of the city on the Atlantic Ocean.
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Boccia at the Summer Paralympics
Boccia has been contested at the Summer Paralympics since the 1984 Games in New York City and Stoke Mandeville.
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Braille
Braille is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired.
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Brazil
Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.
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Brazilian Paralympic Committee
The Brazilian Paralympic Committee or BPC (Comitê Paralímpico Brasileiro – CPB) is the private, non-profit organization representing Brazilian Paralympic athletes in the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Parapan American Games.
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Brazilian real
The Brazilian real (real, pl. reais; sign: R$; code: BRL) is the official currency of Brazil.
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Carioca Arena 1
Carioca Arena 1 (Portuguese: Arena Carioca 1) is an indoor stadium in Barra da Tijuca in the west zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Carioca Arena 2
Carioca Arena 2 (Portuguese: Arena Carioca 2) is an indoor stadium in Barra da Tijuca in the west zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Carioca Arena 3
Carioca Arena 3 (Portuguese: Arena Carioca 3) is an indoor stadium in Barra da Tijuca in the west zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Carlos Arthur Nuzman
Carlos Arthur Nuzman (born 17 March 1942) is a Brazilian lawyer and a former volleyball player, having competed professionally from 1957 to 1972 and represented the national team between 1962 and 1968.
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Casa da Moeda do Brasil
The Casa da Moeda do Brasil is the Brazilian mint, owned by the Brazilian government and administratively subordinated to the Ministry of Finances.
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CBC Olympic broadcasts
The broadcasts of Summer and Winter Olympic Games produced by CBC Sports is shown on CBC Television and heard on CBC's radio networks in Canada.
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CBC Sports
CBC Sports is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for English-language sports broadcasting.
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CBC Television
CBC Television (also known as simply "CBC") is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network that is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French-language counterpart is Ici Radio-Canada Télé. Headquartered at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto, CBC Television is available throughout Canada on over-the-air television stations in urban centres and as a must-carry station on cable and satellite television. Almost all of the CBC's programming is produced in Canada. Although CBC Television is supported by public funding, commercial advertising revenue supplements the network, in contrast to CBC Radio and public broadcasters from several other countries, which are commercial-free.
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Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982.
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Chicago bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics
The Chicago bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics was an unsuccessful bid, first recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on September 14, 2007.
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China at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
China has qualified to send athletes to the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016.
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Claro (company)
Claro Americas is part of América Móvil, a Mexican telecom group serving clients in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the United States (Puerto Rico), and Uruguay.
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Clodoaldo Silva
Clodoaldo Silva (born 1 February 1979) is a Brazilian swimmer.
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Coldplay
Coldplay are a British rock band formed in 1996 by lead singer and pianist Chris Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London (UCL).
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Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro
Copacabana is a bairro (neighbourhood) located in the South Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Copenhagen
Copenhagen (København; Hafnia) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark.
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Cycling at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Cycling at the 2016 Summer Paralympics consisted of 50 events in two main disciplines, track cycling and road cycling.
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Cycling at the Summer Paralympics
Cycling has been contested at every Summer Paralympic Games since the 1984 Summer Paralympics.
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Dailymotion
Dailymotion is a video-sharing technology platform.
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Deodoro Military Club
The Deodoro Military Circle is a Brazilian Army sport facility in Rio de Janeiro, at the Military Village, on the western side of the city.
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Deodoro Stadium
Deodoro Stadium is a temporary stadium at Deodoro Modern Pentathlon Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Dilma Rousseff
Dilma Vana Rousseff (often known mononymously as Dilma; born 14 December 1947) is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the 36th President of Brazil, holding the position from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016, becoming the first democratically-elected female President in the world to be impeached and removed.
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Disabled sports
Disabled sports, also adaptive sports or parasports, are sports played by persons with a disability, including physical and intellectual disabilities.
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Doping in Russia
Doping in Russian sports has a systemic nature.
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Eduardo Paes
Eduardo da Costa Paes (born 14 November 1969) is a Brazilian politician who is the former mayor of the city of Rio de Janeiro, having defeated Fernando Gabeira in the 2008 Elections.
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Equestrian at the Summer Paralympics
Paralympic equestrian competition is a Para-equestrian event that consists of dressage.
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ESPN (Latin America)
ESPN is a Latin American pay-TV network that broadcasts sports-related programming for the Latin American region in Spanish.
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Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos
The Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos, formerly the Estádio Olímpico João Havelange (João Havelange Olympic Stadium), is a multi-purpose stadium located in the neighbourhood of Engenho de Dentro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Federal courts of Brazil
The federal court system of Brazil has all its organs and competences listed and defined in the Brazilian 1988 Constitution.
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Flora
Flora is the plant life occurring in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring or indigenous—native plant life.
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Football 5-a-side at the Summer Paralympics
Football 5-a-side has been contested at the Summer Paralympics since 2004.
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Football 7-a-side at the Summer Paralympics
Football 7-a-side has been contested at every Summer Paralympics between 1984 and 2016.
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Fort Copacabana
Fort Copacabana (Forte de Copacabana) is a military base at the south end of the beach that defines the district of Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro.
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Fox Sports (Latin America)
Fox Sports is a Latin American pay television network that is owned by Fox Latin American Channels, a unit of the Fox Networks Group. The network focuses on sports-related programming including live and pre-recorded event broadcasts, sports talk shows and original programming, available throughout Latin America. The network is based in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay.
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Future Arena
The Future Arena (Portuguese: Arena do Futuro) was a temporary sporting venue in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that was used for handball, volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics and goalball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
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Gaby Amarantos
Gabriela Amaral dos Santos, known by her stage name Gaby Amarantos, is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, actress and TV presenter from the city of Belém.
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Goalball at the Summer Paralympics
Goalball tournaments have been staged at the Paralympic Games since 1976.
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Great Britain
Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.
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Grumari
Grumari is a neighborhood in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Grupo Globo
Grupo Globo (Globo Group), formerly known as Organizações Globo (Globo Organization), is the largest mass media group of Latin America, founded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1925 by Irineu Marinho.
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Heart (symbol)
The heart shape is an ideograph used to express the idea of the "heart" in its metaphorical or symbolic sense as the center of emotion, including affection and love, especially romantic love.
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Hellenic Paralympic Committee
The Hellenic Paralympic Committee (Ελληνική Παραολυμπιακή Επιτροπή) is the National Paralympic Committee in Greece for the Paralympic Games movement.
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I. R. Iran National Paralympic Committee
The Paralympic Committee of Iran is the body responsible for selecting athletes to represent Iran at the Paralympic Games and other international athletic meets and for managing the Iranian teams at the events.
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Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff
The impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, the 36th President of Brazil, began on 2 December 2015 with a petition for her impeachment accepted by Eduardo Cunha, then president of the Chamber of Deputies, and continued into late 2016.
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Inclusivism
Inclusivism, one of several approaches to understanding the relationship between religions, asserts that while one set of beliefs is absolutely true, other sets of beliefs are at least partially true.
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Independent Paralympic Athletes at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
The Independent Paralympic Athletes Team, a team consisting of refugee and asylee Paralympic athletes, will compete at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016.
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Infinity symbol
The infinity symbol (sometimes called the lemniscate) is a mathematical symbol representing the concept of infinity.
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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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Ivete Sangalo
Ivete Maria Dias de Sangalo Cady (born May 27, 1972) is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, and occasional actress and television show host.
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Jeunesse Arena
Jeunesse Arena is an indoor multi-purpose arena, located in the region of Barra da Tijuca, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Judo at the Summer Paralympics
Paralympic judo has been contested at the Summer Paralympic Games since 1988.
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Knud Enemark Jensen
Knud Enemark Jensen (30 November 1936 – 26 August 1960) was a Danish cyclist who died while participating in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy.
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Latin America
Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Spanish, French and Portuguese are spoken; it is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America.
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List of IOC country codes
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) uses three-letter abbreviation country codes to refer to each group of athletes that participate in the Olympic Games.
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List of Paralympic mascots
Each Paralympic Games have a mascot, usually an animal native to the area or occasionally human figures representing the cultural heritage.
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Lusophone
Lusophones (lusófonos) are people who speak the Portuguese language, either as native speakers or as learners.
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Madrid bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics
The Madrid bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics was an unsuccessful bid, first recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on September 14, 2007.
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Maracanã Stadium
The Maracanã (Estádio do Maracanã, standard Brazilian Portuguese:, local pronunciation), officially Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho, is a football stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro
Maracanã (which in Tupi–Guarani means green bird) is a middle-class neighborhood in the Northern Zone of Rio de Janeiro city.
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Marina da Glória
Marina da Glória is a marina located in the neighbourhood of Glória in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Michel Temer
Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia (born 23 September 1940) is a Brazilian lawyer and politician serving as the 37th and current President of Brazil.
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Multi-sport event
A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, featuring competition in many different sports among organized teams of athletes from (mostly) nation-states.
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National Equestrian Center
The National Equestrian Center, known as the Olympic Equestrian Centre during the 2016 Summer Olympics, is an equestrian venue located at the Deodoro Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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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 Shooting Center
The National Shooting Center, known as the Olympic Shooting Centre during the 2016 Summer Olympics, is a firing range in Deodoro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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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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NBC Olympic broadcasts
The broadcasts of Summer and Winter Olympic Games produced by NBC Sports is shown on the various networks of NBCUniversal in the United States, including the NBC broadcast network, Spanish language network Telemundo, and many of the company's cable networks.
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NBCSN
NBCSN is an American digital cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBC Sports Group division of NBCUniversal.
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Olympic and Paralympic deaths
At the modern Olympic Games,, 10 athletes have died while either competing in or practicing their sport.
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Olympic Aquatics Stadium
The Olympic Aquatics Stadium (Estádio Aquático Olímpico) is a temporary aquatics center in the Barra Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro.
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Olympic Tennis Centre (Rio de Janeiro)
The Olympic Tennis Centre (Centro Olímpico de Tênis) is a tennis venue located in the Barra Olympic Park in Barra da Tijuca in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Pan American Games
The Pan American Games (also known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) is a major sporting event in the Americas featuring summer sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions.
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Paracanoe
Paracanoe is canoeing for athletes with a range of physical disabilities.
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Paracanoe at the Summer Paralympics
Paracanoe debuted at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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Paralympic symbols
The Paralympic symbols are the icons, flags and symbols used by the International Paralympic Committee to promote the Paralympic Games.
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Parapan American Games
The Parapan American Games is an international multi-sport event for athletes with physical disabilities held every four years after every Pan American Games.
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Paratriathlon
Paratriathlon is a variant of the triathlon for athletes with a physical disability.
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Paratriathlon at the Summer Paralympics
Paratriathlon debuted at the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Phelipe Rodrigues
Phelipe Andrews Melo Rodrigues (born 10 August 1990) is a paralympic swimmer from Brazil competing mainly in category S10 events.
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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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Poland
Poland (Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country located in Central Europe.
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Pontal (Rio de Janeiro)
Pontal is a small peninsula and beach area in the Recreio dos Bandeirantes (or simply Recreio) neighborhood, located in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and was a temporary venue in the Barra Olympic venues cluster for the Athletics (race walk) and Cycling (time trial) competitions of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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Powerlifting at the Summer Paralympics
Paralympic powerlifting has been competed at every Summer Paralympics since 1984.
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President of Brazil
The President of Brazil, officially the President of the Federative Republic of Brazil (Presidente da República Federativa do Brasil) or simply the President of the Republic, is both the head of state and the head of government of the Federative Republic of Brazil.
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Rede Globo
Rede Globo (Globe Network), or simply Globo, is a Brazilian free-to-air television network, launched by media proprietor Roberto Marinho on 26 April 1965.
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Refugee Olympic Team at the 2016 Summer Olympics
The Refugee Olympic Team competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016, as independent Olympic participants.
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Regions of Brazil
Brazil is geopolitically divided into five regions (also called macroregions) by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE); each region is composed of three or more states.
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Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro (River of January), or simply Rio, is the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas.
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Rio de Janeiro bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics
The Rio de Janeiro bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics was a successful bid to host the Games of the XXXI Olympiad and the XV Paralympic Games, respectively.
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Rio Olympic Velodrome
The Rio Olympic Velodrome, officially the Velódromo Municipal do Rio (Rio Municipal Velodrome), is a velodrome located in the Barra Olympic Park sports complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Riocentro
Riocentro is an exhibition and convention center located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Road bicycle racing
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held on paved roads.
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Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon
Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon (Portuguese: Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas) is a lagoon in the district of Lagoa in the Zona Sul (South Zone) area of Rio de Janeiro.
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Rowing at the Summer Paralympics
Rowing at the Summer Paralympics has been part of the competition since the 2008 Summer Paralympics.
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Russia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Russia was originally scheduled to compete during the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in what would have been its sixth consecutive appearance at the Summer Paralympics as an independent nation.
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Sailing at the Summer Paralympics
Sailing has been an official part of the Summer Paralympic Games between 2000 to 2016, after being a demonstration sport in 1996.
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Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí
The Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí is a purpose-built parade area built for the Rio Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Seven Network
The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network.
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Shooting at the Summer Paralympics
Paralympic shooting has been competed at the Summer Paralympic Games since 1976.
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South America
South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Sportsnet One
Sportsnet One (SN1 or SN One) is a Canadian English-language Category C digital cable and satellite specialty channel that is owned by Rogers Media; it operates as a national sports channel complementing the Sportsnet group of regional sports networks.
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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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Stuff.co.nz
Stuff.co.nz is a New Zealand news website published by Fairfax Digital, a division of Fairfax New Zealand Ltd, a subsidiary of Australian company Fairfax Media Ltd.
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Summer Paralympic Games
The Summer Paralympic Games or the Games of the Paralympiad, are an international multi-sport event where athletes with physical disabilities compete.
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Sunrise (TV program)
Sunrise is an Australian breakfast television program, broadcast on the Seven Network and currently hosted by David Koch and Samantha Armytage.
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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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Sweden
Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.
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Swimming at the Summer Paralympics
Swimming has been contested at every Summer Paralympics.
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Sydney
Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.
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Table tennis at the Summer Paralympics
Paralympic table tennis has been competed at every Summer Paralympic Games since they were first held in 1960.
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Television New Zealand
Television New Zealand (Te Reo Tātaki o Aotearoa), more commonly referred to as TVNZ, is a state-owned television network that is broadcast throughout New Zealand and parts of the Pacific region.
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Telewizja Polska
Telewizja Polska S.A. (TVP S.A., or Polish Television) is a public broadcasting corporation, the only public TV broadcaster in the territory of the Republic of Poland.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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Tokyo
, officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and has been the capital since 1869.
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Tokyo bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics
The Tokyo bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics was an unsuccessful bid, first recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on September 14, 2007.
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Track cycling
Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes (but many events are held at older velodromes where the track banking is relatively shallow) using track bicycles.
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TV Brasil
TV Brasil is a Brazilian public television network owned by Empresa Brasil de Comunicação.
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Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".
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Union Cycliste Internationale
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI;, International Cycling Union) is the world governing body for sports cycling and oversees international competitive cycling events.
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United States Olympic Committee
The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) is the National Olympic Committee for the United States.
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Vinicius and Tom
Vinicius (sometimes Vinícius) is the official mascot of the 2016 Summer Olympics, and Tom is the official mascot of the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
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Volleyball at the Summer Paralympics
Paralympic volleyball was first competed at the Summer Paralympic Games in 1976.
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We're the Superhumans
"We're the Superhumans" is a television advert which was produced by Channel 4 to promote its broadcast of the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
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Wheelchair basketball at the Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair basketball has been contested at the Summer Paralympics since the 1960 Summer Paralympics in Rome.
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Wheelchair fencing at the Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair fencing has been contested at every Summer Paralympic Games since they were first held in 1960.
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Wheelchair rugby at the Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair rugby was first contested at the Summer Paralympics as a demonstration sport in 1996.
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Wheelchair tennis at the Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair tennis was first contested at the Summer Paralympics as a demonstration sport in 1988, with two events being held (Men's and Women's Singles).
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Yahoo7
Yahoo7 (originally Yahoo!7 until late-2014) is a 50-50 partnership between global internet company, Yahoo! and Australian entertainment and television broadcasting company, Seven West Media.
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Youth Arena
Youth Arena (Portuguese:Arena da Juventude) is an indoor arena in Deodoro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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121st IOC Session
The 121st International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session was held on October 1–9, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark, during which Rio de Janeiro was selected as the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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1960 Summer Olympics
The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad (Italian: Giochi della XVII Olimpiade), was an international multi-sport event that was held from August 25 to September 11, 1960, in Rome, Italy.
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2000 Summer Paralympics
The 2000 Paralympic Games were held in Sydney, Australia, from 18 to 29 October.
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2007 Pan American Games
The 2007 Pan American Games, officially known as the XV Pan American Games, were a major continental multi-sport event that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from July 13 to July 29, 2007.
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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.
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2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics, formally the Games of the XXX Olympiad and commonly known as London 2012, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, United Kingdom.
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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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2012 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony
The closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Paralympics, also known as The Festival of the Flame, was held on 9 September at the Olympic Stadium in London.
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2014 Winter Paralympics
The 2014 Winter Paralympics (r), the 11th Paralympic Winter Games, and also more generally known as the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, were an international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), held in Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia on 7–16 March 2014.
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2015 Parapan American Games
The 2015 Parapan American Games, officially the V Pan American Games and commonly known as the Toronto 2015 ParaPan-Am Games, were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities, celebrated in the tradition of the Parapan American Games as governed by the Americas Paralympic Committee, held from August 7 to 15, 2015 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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2015–16 protests in Brazil
In 2015 and 2016, a series of protests in Brazil denounced corruption and the government of President Dilma Rousseff, triggered by revelations that numerous politicians, many from Brazil's Workers' Party, allegedly accepted bribes connected to contracts at state-owned energy company Petrobras between 2003 and 2010, while Rousseff chaired the company's board of directors.
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2016 Summer Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics (Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad and commonly known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 3 August.
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2016 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony
The opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Paralympics took place on the evening of 7 September 2016 at the Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, starting at 18:30 BRT (21:30 UTC).
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2018 Winter Paralympics
The 2018 Winter Paralympics, 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.
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2020 Summer Paralympics
The are an upcoming major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee.
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7TWO
7TWO is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel, which was launched by the Seven Network on 1 November 2009.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Summer_Paralympics
