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Archive for the 'Sports' Category
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
 In a historic match, Bolivia’s Real Potosi soccer team has defeated one of the world’s best clubs, Flamengo from Brazil in the Copa Libertadores yesterday. Real Potosi will play the next round in Río de Janeiro against Olimpia (Paraguay), Emelec (Ecuador) y Lanús (Argentina) for the group 2 title. Flamengo’s Luiz Antonio started the game [...]
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Thursday, October 13th, 2011
Bolivian cyclist Horacio Gallardo from Tarija beat his opponent Yamil Montaño by just milliseconds in the first stage of the 20th annual Vuelta a Santa Cruz. His time was 3:42:05, the exact same time as Montaño. The competition began yesterday in the Plaza del Estudiante and made its way to Warnes, where the various Bolivian [...]
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Friday, September 30th, 2011
Bolivian golfer José Luis Montaño Jr. currently leads the youth golf “Copa Los Andes” being held in the Asunción, Paraguay Golf Club. Montaño is ahead of the best youth golfers from Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, and other South American countries as the tournament enters its last day today. He leads with 150 strokes to Colombian Mauricio [...]
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
Bolivia dominated the South American Cycling Championships which began in Sucre and finished with a steep descent today from the Churuquella mountain. Bolivians got first in every category. Yamil Montaño won men’s elite, Gladys Choque won the women’s elite, María Teresa Nina won women under 17 and Mario Checa won men sub-19. The race traversed [...]
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Saturday, July 9th, 2011
Costa Rica defeated Bolivia’s national football (soccer) team yesterday 2-0 in Jujuy, Argentina. Presidenta Evo Morales had flown in to watch the game and explained that Bolivia played well but made two careless mistakes that cost them two goals. Morales told the press that he is hopeful that Bolivia can come back to win their [...]
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
 Americans Liz Pagano and Kimberly McGuiven took the Bolivians, Johanna Balderrama and Claudia Pavisic by 2-0 (21-13 and 21-17), to win the title to the fourth stage of the Worldwide Circuit of Beach Volleyball that ended April 17th on the field of Cochabamba’s Olympic Club, located on Costanera avenue. Liz Pagano is a Beach Volleyball [...]
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Sunday, April 17th, 2011
Yesterday, radio Radio Erbol hosted its 6th annual Children’s Races in La Paz’s Hernando Siles stadium. The races featured hundreds of children from the ages of 9 to 12 from all over the country competing in the La Paz’s withering altitude of 3,637 meters (11,932 feet). The respective girls and boys winner were Blanca Barreto [...]
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
The Bolivar football team presented Evo Morales received a jersey from football star Leonel Messi to auction on behalf of Bolivian landslide and flood victims. The connection was made through the technical director of the Bolivar team and Argentine Ángel Guillermo Hoyos who was briefly Messi´s trainer in Barcelona. The President of Bolviar said, ¨We´ve [...]
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Friday, March 4th, 2011
LA PAZ – President Evo Morales and officials from the Dakar Rally met today to discuss holding the 2013 competition…
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Thursday, August 26th, 2010
In a 5-0 victory over Haiti yesterday, Bolivia´s under-15 men´s national team took the gold medal in the Youth Olympic Games…
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