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The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities.There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, have been held shortly after the corresponding Olympic Games.
The Paralympic sports comprise all the sports contested in the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games. As of 2020, the Summer Paralympics included 22 sports and 539 medal events, [1] and the Winter Paralympics include 5 sports and disciplines and about 80 events. [2] The number and kinds of events may change from one Paralympic Games to another.
Tennis: Tennis at the Paralympics is played with all the same rules as able-bodied tennis with the exception that the ball is allowed to bounce twice, and the first bounce must be within the bounds of the court. It is open to athletes with a mobility related disability which means that they cannot compete on equal terms with able-bodied tennis ...
The first Paralympic Games took place in 1960, 66 years after the maiden modern summer Olympics. The British Paralympic Association was founded in 1989 and has overseen Games participation ever since.
Until the 2024 Games, only two women competed in the event, the Dutch Monique de Beer and the Canadian Sarah Hunter, both competed in 2004 and 2008, but the Dutch is still the only woman to win a medal at the Paralympics, a bronze in the doubles event in 2004. Current events. Men's singles; Men's doubles; Women's singles; Women's doubles; Quad ...
The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) released the full, 225-member team roster on Monday. Team USA will have 110 male and 110 female Paralympic athletes — plus five guides ...
Wimbledon men's wheelchair doubles Wimbledon men's wheelchair doubles. Wheelchair tennis is one of the forms of tennis adapted for wheelchair users. The size of the court, net height and rackets are the same, but there are two major differences from pedestrian tennis: athletes use specially designed wheelchairs, and the ball may bounce up to two times, where the second bounce may also occur ...
The Paris Paralympic Games begin on Wednesday, just a couple of weeks after its Paris Olympics counterpart extinguished its flame. Meet the Paralympians on Team USA.