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Macau Outstanding Athletes Election
The Macau Outstanding Athletes Election (Portuguese language, Portuguese: ''Eleição dos Atletas Excepcionais de Macau''; ) is organized by the and by to award athletes who have contributed to the success or development of Macau in sport. 80% of the vote is made by the institute committee and 20% is made by the general public. The election is held every two years. Recipients Honorary awards for athletes Honorary awards for junior athletes Honorary awards for teams of Macau Most popular athletes Most popular junior athletes Honorary awards for coaches Honorary praise award {, class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;font-size:small;" ! width="100" , Year ! width="200" , Winners ! width="100" , Sports ! width="100" , Notes , - , rowspan="2" , 2017 , Macau Basketball Team at the Universiade , Basketball , , - , Macau Cycling Team , Cycle sport , , - References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Language
Portuguese ( or, in full, ) is a western Romance language of the Indo-European language family, originating in the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is an official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe, while having co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, and Macau. A Portuguese-speaking person or nation is referred to as " Lusophone" (). As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese speakers is also found around the world. Portuguese is part of the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia and the County of Portugal, and has kept some Celtic phonology in its lexicon. With approximately 250 million native speakers and 24 million L2 (second language) speakers, Portuguese has approximately 274 million total speakers. It is usually listed as the sixth-most spoken language, the third-most sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
