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Sunday, March 8, 2009

Introduction to Paralympics

The Paralympic Games are a multi-sport event for athletes with physical and visual disabilities. This includes athletes with mobility disabilities, amputations, blindness, and cerebral palsy. The Paralympic Games are held every four years, following the Olympic Games, and are governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). The Paralympic Games are sometimes confused with the Special Olympics World Games, which are only for people with intellectual disabilities.

Although the name was originally coined as a portmanteau combining 'paraplegic' (due to its origins as games for people with spinal injuries) and 'Olympic',the inclusion of other disability groups meant that this was no longer considered appropriate. The present formal explanation for the name is therefore that it derives from the Greek preposition παρά, pará ("beside" or "alongside") and thus refers to a competition held in parallel with the Olympic Games.

Here are 5 different disability group that compete amputees vision impaired, cerbral palsy the other (french term is used and wheelchair. There are 19 sports 4 unque to the Paralympics
Goal ball (blind) Boccia (wheelchair Cerebal Palsy )
Power lifting, and Wheelchair Rugby (invent by Quad in Canda who couldn't play wheelchair basketball)
There are many classification in each sport. Athletes must qualify to compete or wild card entry
Swimming have 13 classes. S1 the most physical disabled and 10 the least physical disable. S13 is visual impaired and S11 are completely blind. Brest stroke use different muscle group so they could be a different class.
Swim and Athlete is open to all disability groups where one like 5 aside soccer is only open to blind, 7 aside C.P not in w.c 5 - 8. Wheelchair Basket ball leg amputees and lower back.


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Some paralympians in action =D

*Sources from wikipedia and google images.
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