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Interesting Facts About Olympic Nations – Mexico

This country sent 209 athletes to the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. The Mexican team had athletes competing in : athletics (12), boxing (8), Wrestling (11), judo (3), weightlifting (3), gymnastics (15), cycling (8), shooting (12), archery (9), fencing (6), equestrian (12), modern pentathlon (4), swimming (38), soccer (19), field hockey (18), rowing (12), kayak (10) and sailing (9).

The I Central American & Caribbean Games were held in Mexico in 1926. The best Mexican sportspeople were Mariano Aguilar (athletics), Juan de Icaza (swimming),Manuel Guzman (track and field), Luis Scherer (swimming) and Alfonso Unda (tennis).

The Mexican water polo team finished 9th at the 1975 FINA World Cup in Cali, Colombia.This team won the gold medal at the VII Pan American Games.

Oscar De la Hoya has Mexican origin. This famous American boxer won a gold medal at the 1992 Olympics in Spain.

Ana Gabriela Guevara Espinoza is the greatest Mexican sportswoman of all time.She has been a member of the Mexico national team since 1997.Ana was named Mexico’s Athlete of 2003.Certainly, she is an idol in the United Mexican States. For many reasons, she has contributed greatly to the development of sport in her country. Ana has won several international medals in the 1990s and the 2000s.

Top performances:

1998: Central American & Caribbean Games- 2nd 800m ,2nd 400m

1999: Pan American Games-1st 400m

2001:World Championship-3rd 400m

2002: Central American & Caribbean Games- 1st- 400m, 1st-4×400m relay

2003: World Championship-1st 400m; Pan American Games-1st 400m

2004: Olympic Games-2nd 400m

2005: World Championship-3rd 400m

2006: Central American & Caribbean Games- 1st- 400m, 1st-4×400m relay

2007: World Championship-4th 400, 8th 4×40m relay; Pan American Games-1st 400m, 2nd 4×400m relay.

Alejandro Guevara Onofre: He is a freelance writer.Alejandro is of Italian, African and Peruvian ancestry.He has published more than seventy-five research paper in English, and more than twenty in Spanish, concerning the world issues, olympic sports, countries, and tourism. His next essay is called “The Dictator and Alicia Alonso”. He is an expert on foreign affairs. Alejandro is the first author who has published a world-book encyclopedia in Latin America.

He admires Frida Kahlo (Mexican painter), Jos Gamarra (former president of the Bolivian Olympic Committee ,1970- 1982), Hillary Clinton (ex-First Lady of the USA), and Jimmy Carter (former President of the USA). Alejandro said: “The person who I admire the most is Jos Gamarra . He devoted his professional and personal life to sport. Jos played an important role in the promotion of Olympism in Bolivia -it is one of the Third World`s poorest countries- and Latin America. His biography is interesting”.The sportspeople he most admire is Olympic volleyball player Flo Hyman. “This African-American sportswoman is my idol…”

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Mexico Facts

Mexico (also spelled Méjico) is a country of North America that is officially called United Mexican States, Spanish México, or Estados Unidos Mexicanos. The country’s capital is Mexico City. Mexico gained independence on September 16, 1810. The monetary unit of the country is Mexican pesso and the official language is Spanish. Mexico is a Federal republic with two legislative houses (Senate with 128 members and the Chamber of Deputies comprising of 500 members). The President heads the state and government. The ethnic composition is as follows – Mestizo 60%, Amerindian 30%, European 9% and others 1%. The population is approximately 100,976,511 (ranking 11th in the world) with a density of 133.1 persons per square mile. The birth and death rates are 24.6 and 5.1 per 1000 population, respectively. Life expectancy for male and female is 68.5 and 74.7 respectively.

The GNP (in millions nominal US$) is 428,877 and an external debt of 81,550 million US$. The total value of exports is 79,488.6 million US$ and that of imports is 73,993 million US$. The literacy rate is about 89.6% and the daily available calories per capita are 3,136. Total road length is 188,886 miles and the annual military expenditure is 2700 million US$. Cellular phone subscriptions and Internet users per 1000 population are 202.3 and 35.2 respectively. Geographically speaking, sharing a common border throughout its northern extent with the United States, the country is bounded on the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, to the east by the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, and on the southeast by Guatemala and Belize. Roughly triangular in shape, Mexico covers an area of about 756,066 square miles. While it is more than 1,850 miles across the country from northwest to southeast, the width varies from less than 135 miles at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to more than 1,200 miles in the north.

Mexico has a vast wealth of mineral resources, a limited amount of agricultural land, and rapidly growing population. More than half of the people live in the central core, while vast areas of the arid north and tropical south are sparsely settled. The long-held stereotype of Mexico as a country where life is slow-paced and the population mainly consists of subsistence farmers has little truth. Petroleum and tourism have come to dominate the economy, and industrialization is increasing tremendously. Internal migration has caused urban centers to grow dramatically, and more than two-thirds of Mexicans now live in cities; in population, Mexico City, the capital, is the largest city in the world (though the Mexico City metropolitan area ranks third in population when compared to other metropolitan areas). Despite impressive social and economic gains made during the 1960s and ’70s, most Mexicans however, continue to remain poor.

It would not be wrong to say that the growing pains of modernization are in sharp counterpoint to the traditional life-styles that prevail in the more isolated rural areas. Small communal villages remain, where Indian peasants continue to live much as did their ancestors. The cultural remnants of great Indian civilizations, such as those at Chichén Itzá or Tulum, provide a contrast to colonial towns like Taxco or Querétaro. In turn, these towns often appear as historical relics when compared to the modern metropolis of Mexico City. It is this tremendous cultural and economic diversity, distributed over an enormously complex and varied physical environment, which gives Mexico its rich and composite character.

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