Alex Myers reports for Golf Digest: Get to know Susana Benavides, the best female golfer ever (from Bolivia) It’s too early to tell if Susana Benavides will ever achieve her dream of playing full time on the LPGA Tour. But no matter where her career takes her, the Bolivian beauty is bound to turn heads….
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Bolivia achieved gold in the South American Kickboxing
The Página Siete reports: Bolivia achieved gold in the South American Kickboxing The Santa Cruz born, Iván Ibarbe, from the Club Kanock Out Training Center of Santa Cruz, won the gold medal on the last day of the Ninth South American Championship of kick boxing, which took place in Santiago de Chile from 10 to 13 this…
Stefany Coronado bathes Bolivia with gold at the Panamerican Games in Canada!
Pagina Siete reports: The paceña walker won the title in 10,000 meters Stefany Coronado bathes Bolivia with gold at the Pan-American National athlete set a new tournament record with a mark of 47’05”11/100 and displaced Colombian Lorena Arenas (48’15”78/100). The La Paz walker Stefany Coronado got the gold medal yesterday for Bolivia, in the Pan…
Bolivian Carmen Rosa: The fearless cholita wrestler
From Sounds and Colors: CARMEN ROSA: THE FEARLESS CHOLITA WRESTLER By Ellen Gordon: The indigenous Aymara people have been discriminated against since colonial times and make up the second largest ethnic group In Bolivia. The Aymara’s knowledge of the land, ability to adapt to modernisation, and extensive trading networks have ensured their survival even when…
Inexhaustible strength of Esteban Quelale
El Diario made an excellent recognition of a superb athlete: Inexhaustible strength Esteban Quelale, 71 years old, runs in El Diario’s competition [13 kilometer run] for 40 years. The icon of the Bolivian received the athletics gold medal in the specialty of the Bolivarian walk in 1977 and Odesur, held in the city of La…
Whining continues on “high altitude” soccer/football, visitors lose … then complain… WTH?!
The New York Times wrote bout our national sport: Bolivian Clubs Are at Home in Thin Air By EWAN MacKENNAMARCH 10, 2015 Tucked tightly among the high-rises of the Miraflores district of La Paz, Bolivia, the Hernando Siles stadium is one of those great South American dust bowls drenched in character. Yet few stadiums anywhere…
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