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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.
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.
At the 1996 Summer Paralympics, classification was important because if on the spot classifications resulted in changes to a competitor's classification, it impacted the competition schedule. Consequently, on the spot classification or re-classification, was viewed as a negative aspect for these Games and the Paralympic movement overall. [27]
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
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.
The Paralympics opening ceremony set the stage for the sports drama to come. Paralympics opening ceremony. 22:35, Mike Jones. Two torch bearers receive the Paralympic flame and head over to the ...
As a result 'para-' came to be recognised as a standard prefix to denote all disability sports, and as organisations were formed by the International Paralympic Committee to organise and regulate the different disability sports, a practice emerged, particularly in sports with multiple disability classifications, of describing the sports with ...