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The 2024 Summer Paralympics (French: Jeux paralympiques d'été de 2024), also known as the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, and branded as Paris 2024, is the 17th Summer Paralympic Games, an upcoming international multi-sport parasports event governed by the International Paralympic Committee, to be held in Paris, France, from 28 August to 8 September 2024.
May 25, 2025. ( 2025-05-25) Frequency. Annual. Related to. Nerd, geek, science fiction. Geek Pride Day is an initiative to promote geek culture, celebrated annually on May 25. [1] The initiative originated in Spain in 2006 as ( Spanish: Día del orgullo friki) and spread around the world via the Internet .
Los Frikis or the Frikis is a Cuban punk subculture that originated in the 1980s. [1] As Cuban radio stations rarely played rock music, Frikis often listened to music by picking up radio frequencies from stations in nearby Florida. [2] While many Frikas in the early 1990s entered AIDS clinics by knowingly injecting HIV -positive blood into them ...
Costa Rican track and field athletes achieved the entry standards for Paris 2024, either by passing the direct qualifying mark (or time for track and road races) or by world ranking, in the following events (a maximum of 3 athletes each): [1] [2]
[4] [5] The 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka , Japan, produced the winners and runners-up of the men's and women's water polo tournament, qualifying for Paris 2024. Five further quota places were awarded to the highest-ranked eligible NOC at each of the continental meets (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania) approved by ...
Albania competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024, represented by the Albanian National Olympic Committee (KOKSH). It signified the nation's tenth appearance at the summer Olympics, since the official debut in 1972, except for 1976, 1980 due to the US led boycott, 1984 due to USSR led boycott, 1988, the nation's return for the Olympics in 1992.
The Football tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics was won by Hungary. [ 1] The games signalled the arrival (to Western Europeans at least) of the Hungarian national football team – the "Magical Magyars". Ferenc Puskás later said of the 1952 competition: "It was during the Olympics that our football first started to flow with real power." [ 2]
The 2024 Bolivarian Youth Games (Spanish: Juegos Bolivarianos de la Juventud 2024), officially known as the I Bolivarian Youth Games "Sucre 2024" and simply known as Sucre 2024, will be the first edition of the Bolivarian Youth Games, a regional multi-sport event for athletes of up to 19 years old, organized by the Organización Deportiva Bolivariana (ODEBO).