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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.
Competitors are typically organised into three broad categories: deaf sports, athletes with a physical disability, and athletes with an intellectual disability.Deaf athletes typically compete among themselves at events such as the Deaflympics, or in able-bodied events (such as British hammer thrower Charlotte Payne) while athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities are usually ...
PARIS − A determined United States wheelchair rugby team advanced to the gold-medal game at the 2024 Paralympics after defeating rival Great Britain 50-43 Sunday in the semifinals.
As more than 4,400 athletes gather in Paris for the 2024 Paralympic Games, the first medals are starting to be awarded.The Games kicked off on Aug. 28, and will run through Sept. 8.. The first ...
The 2024 Paralympic Games kick off with the opening ceremony on August 28 at 2:00 p.m. EST. The spectacle will begin with a popular parade on the iconic Champs-Elysées, followed by the official ...
In the first edition of the Summer Paralympic Games in 1960, Italy finished the sport in the first place of the medal table, between 1964 and 1996 there was a clear dominance of the United States, being broken in 2000, when Australia dominated the sport at home and since 2004, China has dominated the sport.
The road to the Paralympics is uniquely Brittni Mason’s own. While attending Eastern Michigan University, someone reached out to Mason's coach and asked if one of their athletes would be ...