The team competed in five-a-side football, emerging with the bronze after defeating China 4-0 in a brilliant performance in the third-place playoffs. The squad consisted of five players, all visually impaired, playing a modified version of football.
Overall, Morocco performed exceptionally well during the 2020 Paralympic Games that wrapped up . Moroccan athletes took home medals in shotput, track, discus, football, and various other athletic disciplines.
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The Arabic language ranks in the top five of the most spoken languages in the world.
Today, there are 7,117 languages spoken in the world, spread over 220 countries.
Among these languages, about 40% are unfortunately threatened with extinction. This is due to the decreasing number of speakers, resulting in the language’s gradual disappearance.
According to UNESCO, one language disappears every two weeks.
In fact, out of a total of more than 7,000 languages spoken in more than 220 countries, only 200 languages are both spoken and written, and only 23 languages are spoken by more than half the world’s population.
These numbers are constantly changing, and research on world languages is constantly being released.
If 7,117 languages are currently listed around the world, not all of them radiate in the same direction or undergo the same evolution.
According to the scientific publication, Chinese, Spanish, English, Hindi, and Arabic are among the top five native languages in the world.
Arabic is the sixth most spoken language in the world, behind English (1268 billion speakers), Mandarin Chinese (1.012 billion), Hindi (637 million), Spanish (538 million) and French, which is closely tied to Arabic for this ranking.
Arabic is spoken by 274 million people in the world, while french speakers make up 277 million. In France, Arabic is the second most spoken language with more than 4 million speakers.
To complete this Top 10 of the most spoken languages in the world, we find behind Arabic, Bengali (265 million speakers), Russian (258 million), Portuguese (252 million) and finally Indonesian (200 million).
source/content: moroccoworldnews.com
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Ahmed El-gendy (aka) Ahmed Elgendy. Modern Pentathlon. Athlete
Ahmed Elgendy has made Olympics history for Egypt, winning the country’s first ever medal in the men’s modern pentathlon event and the country’s first non-bronze medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Elgendy, who is just 21-years-old, won the historic silver medal after finishing in second place with 1,477 points, just five points away from Great Britain’s Joseph Choong.
Modern pentathlon is an Olympic sport that comprises five different events: fencing, freestyle swimming, equestrian show jumping and final combined ‘laser-run’ event of pistol shooting and cross country running.
source/content: egyptianstreets.com
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Feryal Abdelaziz. Karate. Athlete
Egyptian karateka Feryal Abdelaziz clinched the gold medal at Karate competitions in Tokyo, giving Egypt the first gold medal at Tokyo Olympic Games.
Feryal defeated the World no.1 Irina Zaretska from Azerbaijan 2-0 in the final to clinch the gold medal.
Feryal became the first Egyptian girl to win a gold medal in the Olympic Games and the 8th athlete in the nation’s history to achieve a gold medal.
The Egyptian national anthem was played at the Olympic Games for the first time since Athens Olympic Games in 2004 when Karam Gaber won the gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling.
source/content: egypttoday.com
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Giana Farouk. Karate. Athlete.
Giana Farouk wins Egypt’s first medal in Karate.
Farouk became the first Arab and African Karateka to win a medal in the Olympic Games in the sport’s historic debut at the Olympic Games as one of the four sports added specifically for 2020 Olympic Games.
Giana’s bronze medal is Egypt’s fourth medal at Tokyo Olympic Games after Hedaya Malak and Seif Eissa who won the bronze in Taekwondo and Mohamed Ibrahim Kesho who won the bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling.
Visit www.gianafarouk.com for a complete list of her winning records
source/contents: egypttoday.com
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Mohamed Ibrahim El-Sayed (aka) Mohamed ‘Kesho’ Ibrahim Elsayed. Amateur Wrestling. Athlete.
Egyptian star Mohamed Ibrahim El-Sayed clinched Men’s Greco-Roman 67kg bronze medal .
The 23-year-old defeated Artem Surkov of the ROC in the bonze medal match at the Makuhari Messe in Tokyo.
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Mutaz Essa Barsham. Track and Field Athlete. High Jump.
Mutaz Barshim high jumper claims a first ever gold medal in the track and field with victory in the men’s high jump.
High jumpers Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar and Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy share gold medal
The pair had a choice of a jump-off for one gold or shared medals, and they chose the latter because of their longtime friendship.
Both high jumpers were perfect until the bar was set to the Olympic-record height of 2.39 meters (7 feet, 10 inches). Each missed three times.
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Abdullah Al-Rashidi. Sports Shooting. Skeet. Athlete.
A seven time Olympian who won a bronze medal for Kuwait at the Tokyo Olympics.
It was Abdullah Al-Rashidi’s second Olympic medal but first for his country.
“I am 58 years old. I am the oldest shooter and the bronze medal is worth more than gold for me. I am very happy for this medal, but I hope for a gold medal at the next Olympics,” he told the Olympic information service at the Asaka shooting range.
In the 2016 Rio Olympics Al-Rashidi competed as an individual Athlete winning a Bronze medal.
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Seif Issa. Athlete. Taekwondo.
Taekwondo fighter Seif Issa won the second bronze medal for Egypt after beating Andre Richard Ordemann of Norway 12-4 in the Men’s –80kg contest.
This is Egypt’s second medal in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, as Egyptian Taekwondo fighter Hedaya Malak also secured a bronze medal after beating Paige Mcpherson of USA 17-6 on Monday.
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Hedaya Malak Wahba (aka) Hedaya Malak. Athlete. Taekwondo.
Hedaya Malak Wahba defeated the United States of America’s Paige McPherson 17-6 in the bronze-medal event of the women’s 67kg Taekwondo event, winning Egypt’s first medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Hedaya became the first Arab woman to win two consecutive Olympic medals in Taekwondo, a great achievement for the Egyptian champion
She was also winner of the bronze medal in 2016 Olympics after defeating Raheleh Asemani of Belgium in the Repechage.
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