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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.
Swimmer Ellie Marks just brought home Team USA's first medal at the 2024 Paralympic Games!. On Thursday, Aug. 29, Marks sprinted her way to silver in the women’s 50-meter freestyle S6 race ...
A longtime goal of his was to have the gold medal game shown on network television, "big" NBC; his team made an appearance during one of NBC's two primetime telecasts at the Tokyo Games three ...
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.
Here is a closer look at the full day-by-day schedule for the Games, including every session for every sport (medal events in bold). Paris 2024 Paralympics schedule and day-by-day events More than ...
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 Paralympics originally began as the Stoke Mandeville Games in London in 1948, but became what it is today in 1960, as 400 athletes gathered in Rome to compete against one another.
The games included 549 events in 22 different sports, with no changes to the sports programme from the 2020 Summer Paralympics, however there were expansions for sports such as Badminton and Taekwondo. [2]