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Rwanda's first appearance at the Olympic Games was in 1984, [3] and its first appearance at the Paralympic Games in 2004. [4] The country sent seven competitors to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, representing it in athletics, swimming, mountain biking and judo, [3] and 15 competitors to the London Summer Paralympics to compete in athletics, powerlifting and sitting volleyball. [4]
The Race Walking Association (RWA) is the major competition provider for the event of race walking in England, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands answerable to England Athletics. It was founded in 1907 as the Road Walking Association, and permitted to organise National Road Walking Championships.
Under the official FIFA Trigramme the team's name is abbreviated as RWA; this acronym is used by FIFA, the CAF and the CECAFA to identify the team in official competitions. [7] However the team was more commonly known as the RR , the acronym for the country's official name, Repubulika y'u Rwanda or République du Rwanda , which the local press ...
The Rwandan Cup is the main knock-out competition, with Rayon Sports FC the leading side in the cup. On the international stage Rwandan sides have enjoyed some success in the regional Kagame Inter-Club Cup , with Rayon Sport taking the title in 1998, APR FC winning in 2005 and 2007 and ATRACO FC successful in 2009.
American sports wouldn't be what they are today without the trailblazing black athletes of years past. From household names like Jackie Robinson to more recent history-makers like Vonetta Flowers ...
Race Walking Association, a professional sports body in the UK; Resident welfare association, any self-organised group (particularly in India) which claims to represent the residents of a specified region; Romance Writers of America, a genre-specific writers association; Rot Weiss Ahlen, a football club in Ahlen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Amber Heard has shown her support for Blake Lively after the actress filed a sexual harassment complaint against her It Ends With Us, co-star and director Justin Baldoni. In an undated legal ...
Study of the history of sport can teach lessons about social changes and about the nature of sport itself, as sport seems involved in the development of basic human skills (compare play). [ citation needed ] As one delves further back in history, dwindling evidence makes theories of the origins and purposes of sport more and more difficult to ...