Brad Norton Tiffany Granath

The birth of the Paralympics Other sport

The pinnacle of sport for the disabled are the Paralympics are held every four years in the same places and in stessiimpianti the Olympics. Now reports the story of the birth of this competition taken by Reedy's book Candide "And we call disabled"
Guttman organized in 1948 in Stoke Mandeville Games for the first atleticon disabilities. There are para and quadriplegics. does coincide with the Olympic Games, taking place in England (...).
Four years later, the British altleti aggiundono are Norwegian. The word Paralympic was originally a pun combining "paraplegic" to "olympic". With the inclusion of other types of disability and the ever-closer union with the Olympic Movement, is now the merger of "Parallel" (from the Greek preposition "para") and "Olympic", to show how the two sides of the movements are same coin. Paralympic games were called or Paralympics in Seoul '88. Italy has been a key part in the birth of sport for dissabili. In Rome in 1960 took place because those who are considered the first true Paralympic Games. They were really a lot of small Olympic sports that included eight, six of which are still in the Paralympic program and was attended by 400 athletes from 23 nazioni.Si also play Winter Paralympics. Compared to the first edition in Sweden in '76, there was again an increase cramoroso which will reach its peak in 2006 .(...) turin