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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.
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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.
A cumulated global TV audience of 1.8 billion watch the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games. [9] Over 3000 journalists covered the Games. [5] 2004: International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWSF) established with the merger of ISMWSF and ISOD. [1] 2005: Paralympic Awards are presented for the first time. [9] 2006
This was the origin of the Stoke Mandeville Games, from which evolved both the IWAS World Games and the Paralympic Games. The first official Paralympic Games, which were simultaneously the 9th International Stoke Mandeville Games ('international' having been added when Dutch service personnel first took part in the Games in 1952), were held in ...
The 2024 Paris Paralympics are set to begin Wednesday and will mark the first time that a Summer Paralympic Games is being held in France. ... 4:15 p.m.-5 p.m.: Best of Day 1.
A wheelchair basketball game at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of ten disability categories; impaired muscle power, impaired passive range of movement, limb deficiency, leg length difference, short stature, hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis, vision impairment and intellectual impairment. [3]
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 ...