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Cape Verde: Counting the Olympic medals for Africa

Monday, August 25th, 2008 @ 10:31 UTC

by Paula Góes

Countries:: Cape Verde
Topics:: Gender, Sport
Languages:: Portuguese
Special:: Olympics

This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters. · All posts

Cape Verdean blogger Jorge Tolentino [pt] details the medals that the African countries brought back home from China and highlights: “In an overall total of 40 medals for the continent, 17 were won by women.”

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