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The Summer Games of 1988 held in Seoul was the first time the term Paralympic came into official use. "Spirit in Motion" is the current motto for the Paralympic movement. The current Paralympic flag is used since 2020 and contains three colours, red, blue, and green, which are the colours most widely represented in the flags of nations.
“Classification is the cornerstone of the Paralympic Movement, it determines which athletes are eligible to compete in a sport and how athletes are grouped together for competition,” says the IPC.
Within each movement, different sports are practiced at different levels; for example, not all sports in the Paralympic movement are part of the Paralympic Games. In addition, many sports are practiced by persons with a disability outside the formal sports movements. Adapted sports help society learn about disability.
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
The first Paralympic symbol (1988–1994) used five pa.. The first designated Paralympic logo was created for the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul and based on a traditional Korean decorative component called a pa {Hangul: 파; Hanja: 巴}, two of which make up the taegeuk symbol at the center of the flag of South Korea.
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.
The classification was created by the International Paralympic Committee and has roots in a 2003 attempt to address "the overall objective to support and co-ordinate the ongoing development of accurate, reliable, consistent and credible sport focused classification systems and their implementation."
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.