Paralympics: Games for 'superhumans' opensRIO DE JANEIRO -- Rio de Janeiro opened the Paralympic Games on Wednesday with samba, parading wheelchairs, giant balloons — and loud booing of Brazil's president — at a sold-out Maracana stadium. Then the joyous rhythms of samba singers and a carnivalesque reproduction of a Rio beach scene got them dancing. as newly sworn in President Michel Temer appeared at the ceremony just days after taking over from bitter rival Dilma Rousseff, who was impeached. But Nuzman said "Brazilians never give up," then he told the athletes: "You are superhumans." "Whether there's anything else — I don't know if there's anything else," International Paralympic Committee President Philip Craven said of Bach's decision.

Source: The China Post September 08, 2016 16:30 UTC