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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 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.
Organizers of the Paris Paralympics are promising that the 2024 Games will be the most-watched in Paralympic history, with all sports being broadcast for the first time.
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.
NBC Olympics is the commercial name for the NBC Sports-produced broadcasts of the Summer and Winter Olympic Games as shown in the United States on NBCUniversal platforms. They include the NBC broadcast network and many of the company's cable networks; Spanish language network Telemundo; and streaming on the NBC Sports app, NBCOlympics.com, and Peacock.
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.
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.
This medal table also includes the medals won at the 1992 Summer Paralympics for Intellectually Disabled, held in Madrid, who also organized by then International Coordenation Committee (ICC) and same Organizing Committee (COOB'92) who made the gestion of the 1992 Summer Paralympics held in Barcelona and also part of same event.