AT the Riocentro Pavilion 2, the only sound in the table tennis arena was a steady tapping as the two competitors in the gold-medal match struggled for points.
On one side of the table was Xue Juan. On the other, Li Qian. Both Chinese Paralympians in wheelchairs. Their match was one of two to decide a gold medal on Monday that featured athletes from China only.
After Xue defeated Li, and Zhang Bian beat Gu Gai in the later match, each winner quietly acknowledged the victory, wheeled to the middle of the table and shook the hand of her countrywoman.
There were no screaming fans Carmelo Anthony Jersey , and little celebration. But in Rio, the scene has become routine, across the menu of sports. China is dominating the Paralympics.
After competition ended on Tuesday, China held a huge lead at the top of the board with 147 total medals (63 golds) through six days of competition. The next closest country, the United Kingdom, had 75 medals in all.
The Ukraine (72) was next with the United States (61) in fourth and hosts Brazil (43) in fifth.
China has topped the medal board in the last three Summer Paralympics, starting at the 2004 Athens Games.
This year Allen Iverson Jersey , China has more than 300 athletes, a physical representation of the country’s commitment to keeping its spot as a Paralympic powerhouse, but it can also be seen as a strategy: More athletes competing means more opportunities to collect medals.
This was evident soon after China stepped foot on Brazilian soil. Last Friday, China won 14 medals in swimming, including two all-China podiums in men’s 50- and 100-meter butterfly races. The victories have not stopped.
Some athletes, however, have been raising questions about China’s dominance in Rio.
Philip Craven Alex English Jersey , the International Paralympic Committee president, was asked at a news conference on Monday about complaints that Brazilian competitors had been making about potential cheating by Chinese athletes.
“We had a very informal, short board meeting this morning of the IPC and that issue was brought up to us and it is something that we will look into in the future, not to do necessarily with doping, we always look into that anyway, but with regard to what particularly the Brazilian athletes are thinking and saying,” Craven said.
A spokesman for the IPC later said Craven was referring primarily to whether some Chinese athletes had been classified properly. Russia was banned from Rio for systematic doping Wilson Chandler Nuggets Jersey , raising suspicion about cheating generally.
The Paralympic Games, which date back to an English competition in 1948 and became the Paralympics in 1960, were once an event in which the US routinely topped the medal count.
The US finished first in medals for nine consecutive Paralympics from 1964 to 1996. China, meanwhile, did not begin sending athletes to the Paralympics until the 1984 Games.
The 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Games were awarded in 2001 to Beijing over four other cities. Three years later, at the 2004 Athens Games, China not only cracked the top five in total medals for the first time but also placed first.
China has invested in long-term plans for success at the Paralympics. In 2007 Nikola Jokic Nuggets Jersey , the huge China Disability Sports Training Centre was opened in Beijing.
Britain also invests a lot in its Paralympic program, though Penny Briscoe, the British chef de mission in Rio, said that it can be difficult to compare other countries to China because of the sheer size of its disabled population. In 2012, the Beijing Review reported that China’s disabled population was about 85 million.
Regardless of the number of athletes competing for each nation, it is still up to the individual athlete to win.
At the Olympic Aquatics Stadium on Tuesday, China was at it again.
Yang Bozun and Zhang Xiaotong claimed gold medals and world records in the 100-meter men’s and women’s breaststroke finals for blind competitors. By the end of the night Gary Harris Nuggets Jersey , China had won eight medals and broken five world records.
Zhang was asked about the secret to China’s success at the Paralympic Games. “It is because we train very hard in China and it is a whole teamwork for the entire China team,” she said.
UNITED NATIONS, March 3 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Tuesday reported that some 16,000 Nigerian refugees have fled to the Far North region of neighboring Cameroon over the weekend to escape clashes in northeast Nigeria between regional military forces and insurgents.
"Starting tomorrow, the Agency will work with Cameroon to relocate refugees to a transit site at Kousseri, 90 km from the border," Vannina Maestracci Paul Millsap Nuggets Jersey , the associate UN spokesperson, said at a daily news briefing here, adding "These refugees will then be transferred to a camp in Minawao."
"Given the evolving security situation and the prospect of more refugee arrivals, the possibility of setting up a second refugee camp is being considered," she said, quoting UNHCR.
The Cameroonian authorities have observed a steady flow of refugees streaming in through the "extremely volatile" border regions of Makaria, Logone Birni and Fotokol Wilson Chandler Kids Jersey , just south of Lake Chad, rendering them vulnerable to attacks from the Nigerian insurgent group, Boko Haram, the UN reported.
Clashes between Boko Haram and the Nigerian government forces have intensified in recent weeks as fighting has spilled across borders and become increasingly regionalized. During the past few weeks alone, the group has also perpetrated deadly attacks against civilians in Chad, Cameroon and Niger.
The surge in fighting across the region has largely hampered efforts to
provide humanitarian assistance to those in need. UNHCR was working with the
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