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Quechua was spoken by some of these people, for example, the Wanka, before the Incas of Cusco, while other people, especially in Bolivia but also in Ecuador, adopted Quechua only in Inca times or afterward. [citation needed] Quechua became Peru's second official language in 1969 under the military dictatorship of Juan Velasco Alvarado. There ...
We're the Superhumans is a television advert which was produced by Channel 4 to promote its broadcast of the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.. Serving as a follow-up to Meet the Superhumans (which was used to promote the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London), the advert featured people of various backgrounds and disabilities (including several British Paralympic athletes) performing ...
Q'ero (spelled Q'iru in the official three-vowel Quechua orthography) is a Quechua-speaking community or ethnic group dwelling in the province of Paucartambo, in the Cusco Region of Peru. The Q'ero became more widely known due to the 1955 ethnological expedition of Dr. Oscar Nuñez del Prado of the San Antonio Abad National University in Cusco ...
The games have primarily been hosted on the continent of Europe (15 games). Eight games have been hosted in Asia and five in North America, and one games has been hosted in the region of Oceania. In 2016, the Paralympics were held in South America for the first time. No Paralympic Games have been hosted in the continents of Africa and Antarctica.
Paris raised the game for the Paralympics, with more than 4,000 athletes as well as 2.4 million tickets sold, which was second only to the London Games of 2012. Now the challenge for U.S ...
In the United Kingdom, Channel 4 broadcast the Games as its second Summer Paralympics, promising 500 hours of coverage. [76] [77] As a follow-up to its "Meet the Superhumans" trailer for the 2012 Paralympics, Channel 4 produced a trailer entitled "We're the Superhumans", [78] which would win a Cannes Lions Grand Prix for film. [79]
[3] [4] Radio coverage was provided by the BBC on its radio channels BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra. [5] [6] Australia: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation broadcast the 2012 Paralympics across Australia, mostly on its digital channel ABC2. It broadcast over 100 hours of live coverage including both ceremonies. [7]
— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) August 29, 2024. The victory sets Team USA up well for the remainder of the group stage as they will play the Netherlands on Saturday at 10 a.m. ET.