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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 2024 Paralympic Games run from August 28 to September 8. One thing that can seem confusing though to new viewers of the Paralympics is its unique classification system.
In 2016, the Paralympics were held in South America for the first time. No Paralympic Games have been hosted in the continents of Africa and Antarctica. Host cities are selected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). Currently, they are selected seven years in advance. [1]
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.
This is a list of nations, as represented by National Paralympic Committees (NPCs), that have participated in the Summer Paralympic Games between 1960 and 2024. As of the 2024 Games,187 from current NPCs have participated in at least one edition of the Paralympic Games, and athletes from Argentina, Australia, Austria, France, Great Britain, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland and United States have ...
The IPC Athletics Committee thus changed its name to World Para-Athletics, with Para-athletics itself a portmanteau of para and athletics. The main stand-alone championships of the sport are now referred to as the World Para-Athletics Championships - itself mirroring the change in the able-bodied events when the IAAF change its branding to ...
How to watch the Paralympics. Viewers can watch the Paralympics on Peacock, which will cover the event live. NBC will have three time slots to cover highlights from the Games on Aug. 30 at 9 p.m ...
This is a list of nations, as represented by National Paralympic Committees (NPCs), that have participated in the Winter Paralympic Games between 1976 and 2022. The Winter Paralympic Games have been held every four years (once during each Paralympiad) since 1976,and in 1994 when the Winter Games were moved to the middle of the Paralympiad, two years after the previous Games. 61 NPCs (56 of the ...