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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]
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 ...
This timeline of Rwandan history is a chronological list of major events related to the human inhabitants of Rwanda This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
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Human occupation of Rwanda is thought to have begun shortly after the last ice age.By the 11th century, [1] the inhabitants had organized into a number of kingdoms. In the 19th century, Mwami Rwabugiri of the Kingdom of Rwanda conducted a decades-long process of military conquest and administrative consolidation that resulted in the kingdom coming to control most of what is now Rwanda.
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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 ...