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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.
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]
On June 12, 2024, the organizing committee for the 2028 Summer Paralympics in Los Angeles, announced they would propose Paraclimbing (a variation on sport climbing, which has been an Olympic sport since 2020). The IPC executive voted to approve the proposal during a meeting on June 26, 2024.
At the Tokyo Paralympic Games, the fastest time for a male swimmer for the 100m freestyle was 50.64, an incredibly fast time, however ranking the swimmer at 49th in the top fastest times for men ...
The US once dominated the Paralympics in the same way it does the Olympic Games. Between 1976 and 1996, Team USA topped the medal table at every single Paralympics.
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.
The 1988 Summer Paralympics were the first to be hosted in the same venues (and thus use the same facilities) as the Olympics of that year. Since then, all Paralympic Games are now held in the same city that hosted the Olympics, with a two-week gap between each.
Team USA men's wheelchair basketball opens 2024 Paralympics with win vs. Spain. Gabrile Jackson. August 29, 2024 at 1:57 PM. ... — NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) August 29, 2024.