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The Paralympic version is recoloured with a red, blue, and green gradient to symbolise an aurora and the colours of the Paralympic emblem. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Los Angeles 2028 - The emblems for the 2028 Summer Olympics and Paralympics were unveiled on September 1, 2020, featuring an "A" reflecting the cultural diversity of Los Angeles.
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 .
1998 Winter Paralympics: Nagano: Parabbit: a white rabbit (1 red & 1 green ear) [3] A competition was held among students to find a name for the 1998 Winter Paralympic mascot, and the designation "Parabbit" was chosen from among 3,408 different entries. 2000 Summer Paralympics: Sydney: Lizzie: frill-necked lizard: Matthew Hattan and Jozef Szekeres
The designs of the medals for the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics were unveiled on 8 February 2024; [10] as with the Olympic medals, the front of the Paralympic medals features an embedded original piece of scrap iron from the Eiffel Tower in the shape of a hexagon, engraved with the Paris 2024 emblem.
International Coordinating Committee of World Sports Organizations for the Disabled logo (1988-1989); International Paralympic Committee logo (1989-1994). Date: 1 April 2009, 07:46 (UTC) Source: Seoul 1988 Paralympics emblem on IPC website; IPC logo history on Beijing Olympics & Paralympics website; Author
First Paralympic symbol (1988–1994) used five pa. The first designated Paralympic logo, created for the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul, was based on the traditional pa, the spiral or sinusoid components making up the taegeuk symbol. In March 1992, [20] the Paralympic symbol was changed to a version utilizing only three pa.
IPC president Philip Craven described the emblem as symbolizing the "heart" of athletes, who were the "heart" of the Paralympic movement. [23] As with the Olympic emblem, the Paralympic emblem was designed so that it could also be rendered in two- and three-dimensional versions, [24] such as a sculpture that was used during the unveiling. [21]
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