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Brazil recently hosted the World Indigenous Games, a new international event in which 2,000 athletes competed from 30 countries. Many of the competitions were very different from what will take place in the same country during Summer Olympics 2016, others familiar.

By Leanne Burden Seidel

A girl from the Xambioa tribe arrives to participate in the I World Games for Indigenous People in Palmas, Brazil, Oct. 20.
(Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters)