4000 athletes compete in the Paralympic Games. Four thousand athletes with mobility disabilities, amputees, visual disabilities and those with cerebral palsy participate in the Beijing Paralympics …More
4000 athletes compete in the Paralympic Games.
Four thousand athletes with mobility disabilities, amputees, visual disabilities and those with cerebral palsy participate in the Beijing Paralympics Games.
From 145 countries, these athletes compete to optimistically demonstrate that diminished capacities are not a reason to surrender.
The first Paralympics Games were celebrated in 1948 in a hospital in England; while the first Paralympics Games organized in Olympic style for athletes with disabilities was held in Rome in 1960.
The athletes with some kind of disability compete in 20 different sports while the Olympic Games feature 28 categories.
The slogan for the Games is "One World One Dream".
Four thousand athletes with mobility disabilities, amputees, visual disabilities and those with cerebral palsy participate in the Beijing Paralympics Games.
From 145 countries, these athletes compete to optimistically demonstrate that diminished capacities are not a reason to surrender.
The first Paralympics Games were celebrated in 1948 in a hospital in England; while the first Paralympics Games organized in Olympic style for athletes with disabilities was held in Rome in 1960.
The athletes with some kind of disability compete in 20 different sports while the Olympic Games feature 28 categories.
The slogan for the Games is "One World One Dream".