According to Liberal Democrat AM Eluned Parrott, all visitors to Wales during sporting events are not just sports fans but "future tourists and more importantly ambassadors" for the country.

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He envisions a sophisticated regime that sanctions certain limbs and settings for sporting events like the Olympics, where the goal is hardware and software that approximates, but will not surpass, the function of natural limbs.

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But government is largely self-administered and it has some trappings of nationhood - for example, competing in international sporting events under its own banner - and ended up under New Zealand's aegis only because of its colonial history.

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But recently two of these stood out for me: One is Special Olympics where people with intellectual disabilities participate in sporting events, the other one is a South African charity supporting HIV-positive people called Positive Heroes .

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