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Cape Verde: Counting the Olympic medals for Africa

Written byPaula Góes
Posted 25 August 2008 17 years ago

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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