The Wheel Blacks are a wheelchair rugby team from New Zealand. They won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. Wheelchair rugby refers to adaptation of the sports of rugby union and rugby league for wheelchair users. ... The 2004 Summer Paralympics were held in Athens, Greece, from September 17 to September 28. ...
The international Rugby Union team of New Zealand is known the All Blacks, a name derived from their playing strip of fl shirts, shorts and socks.
The All Blacks main annual competition is the Tri Nations Series played against South Africa and Australia where their six series wins (the most recent in 2005), and 27 match wins, is well ahead of the other two teams:
Although entering as favourites on numerous occasions, the All Blacks have had less success than their supporters would expect, winning it only once, the inaugural competition held in New Zealand in 1987.
The term Blacks is often used in the West to denote race for persons whose progenitors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa.
The French slang term fl (pronounced the same as English, except in plural in which form the S is not pronounced) is a pseudo-anglicism, used only as a noun.
The South Africans use the term fls for the general fl population, but since the country consists of different ethnic groups, they are often called by their ethnic names, e.g.
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