What are the Paralympic Games?

Paralympic games, also called Paralympics, are an international athletic competition for people who have physical disabilities. Originally a combination of the words "paraplegic" and "Olympic", the word "Paralympic" now is a combination of "parallel" and "Olympic" and refers to the fact that games are held in the same years and in the same places as the Olympic Games. Paralympic athletes are classified according to their physical disabilities and competitions against athletes with similar disabilities. Since 2012, the Paralympic Games have belonged to events in more than 20 different sports, some of which allowed athletes to use wheelchairs during the competition.

History

In 1948, in Stoke Mandeville, England, Sir Ludwig Guttmann organized a sports competition that included veterans of World War II, who had spinal cord injuries. In 1952, competitors from the Netherlands joined the games. In Rome in 1960, the games were modeled after the Olympic Hungarian games and named Paralympics. That year competition forShe played 400 athletes from 23 countries.

In Toronto in 1976, people from different groups of disabilities were first added to the Paralympic Summer Games. That year, too, Paralympic winter games took place in Örnsköldsvik in Sweden. Until 2008, when Beijing held summer Paralympic Games, games have grown by more than 4,200 athletes from 148 countries. Like the Olympics, the summer and winter paralympics take place every four years-always in the even years-and alternate that one is always held two years after the other.

International Paralympic Committee

Summer and Winter Paralympic Games have been held in the same places as the Olympic Games by agreement between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). IPC is responsible for organization, supervision and coordination of Paralympic summer and winter games. IPC This mission is to allow athletes with disabilities to achieve D DOkay in sports and thus "inspire and excite" other people around the world.

Classification

Paralympic athletes originally consisted only of athletes in a wheelchair. Classification of disabilities now include athletes who have visual penalties, those who have spinal injuries, those who have brain palsy and those who have amputation or have at least one main part of the limb or joint. There is also a classification called Les Autresres , which is French for "others". This classification includes physical disabilities that do not fall into other classifications. Athletes in the classification Les Autresses can compete with those who are in other classifications in some sports, depending on their functional abilities.

athletes who have mental disabilities that disrupt them in athletics have not competed at the Paralympic Games since 2012. These athletes can compete at special Olympic Games, which is an event separated byD Paralympij. The Summer and Winter World Olympic Games also take place alternately, each with every four years, two years after a second, but are held in an odd issue.

events

Summer events of the Paralympic Games include sports competitions such as archery, volleyball, swimming, table tennis and athletics that some people refer to as a track and field. Summer games also include competitions in judo, cycling, football, shooting and other sports. The events in the area of ​​the wheelchair include basketball, tennis and rugby. Winter events of the Paralympic Games include alpine skiing, Nordic skiing, ice sled and trolley hockey. A sequence of ice is basically a small sled on which an athlete sits, and tacks over the ice when the athlete uses his hands to push the ice.