Word: peru
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Sometimes, vendors sell the good, the bad, and the ugly - and fairgoers dine accordingly. "We just come here one day so I guess I didn't give it much thought," says Jill Allen, 31, of Peru, Iowa, while her four children ate fresh fruit cups, as well as hotdogs, French fries and pork tenderloins served at Beattie's Melon Patch, near the popular Giant Slide...
Malpartida, however, is not the only woman to be hailed as an athletic superstar in Peru. It seems that majority of Peru's sports stars are female. For example, she is now the 76th name to be added to the "cornice of fame" at the National Stadium in the Peruvian capital Lima - the 39th woman to receive the honor. She has thus widened even more the advantage for women athletes in a country where men take sports very seriously but women win medals and championships. "It is a strange phenomenon. There are few countries in the world where the most...
They do play soccer. But that doesn't mean much. The success of women's volleyball came as Peru's men's national soccer team began a downward slide that has not stopped. The country has not qualified for a World Cup tournament since 1982 and became the first team worldwide to be eliminated from competition for the 2010 cup in South Africa. There are talented individual players on the squad, a number playing abroad, but they simply do not excel as a team...
...players, including the former national captain, were removed from the men's team last year after allegedly partying all night just days before facing off against neighboring Ecuador in what was a must-win match to stay in the running for the World Cup. Ecuador, predictably, ran circles around Peru...
...pioneer. She is becoming an inspiration to both young men and women who want to follow in her footsteps. One young amateur boxer, Rocio Gaspar, calls herself "Kinita" or "Little Kina" fought on the undercard on Malpartida's fight night and won her three-round bout. Meanwhile, Jonathan Maicelo, Peru's rising male boxing star, who was also on the undercard, says Malpartida might be the best thing that ever happened to the country's boxing. He told reporters, after defeating Mexico's Javier Gallegos, that Malpartida's fame might get local sporting authorities to recognize that soccer...