Paralympic Games follow the Olympic games in ten days. After the 2010 Vancouver Olympics athletes are finished doing what they do best, Paralympics from all over the world converge on Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia to compete.
-What are the games anyway?
-What counts as a disability?
-What sports may we expect?
"Where there is any sports?
Now let's look at this book one by one to allow us tobe better informed.
So just what are the games anyway?
The Second World War had a profound impact on the world's population who have experienced this terrible conflict. Millions of brave soldiers, sailors and airmen lost their lives in pursuit of freedom for the rest of us to win.
For every death, many more were injured and many were to live with disabilities. Thousands were in wheelchairs. Countless of these brave souls had lost limbs.
Sir LudwigGuttmann was born in Poland in 1899. In 1939 he was working one of the leading neurologists in a Jewish hospital in the beautiful city of Wroclaw on the Oder. He was forced to flee to England when the Germans invaded Poland.
He firmly believed that sport was a wonderful therapy to build strength and welfare of those who were seriously injured. The British government founded the National Spinal Injuries Centre in a town near London and asked him to be the Director ofCenter.
could play different games for the disabled, organized. Every year a few more athletes will enter the 1953 Games, the 145 members were around to.
The directors began to observe the Olympic Games and the start of the 1960 Rome Olympic Games Paralympic Games were held and which has always been so. Guttmann was the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and Commander of the British Empire award(CBE) for his exceptional leadership qualities. The Paralympic Winter Games were held in 1976 in Sweden and is part of the Olympic Games since 1992, formed the Albertville Games.
What counts as a disability?
There are six groups of basic skills within the Paralympic Movement. These are the spinal cord injury, visual impairment, amputations, cerebral palsy, mental retardation and another group with disabilities,outside the box and do not fall into another category.
Every sport has its rules of classification. The athletes are governed by officials who know the athletes as classifiers inside and outside their sport is to see. If an athlete improves, he / she may be reclassified upward or downward. The system is evolving and is always open to revision.
What sports can we expect?
There are four competitions for the 2010 Winter in VancouverParalympics.
Alpine skiing.
With the invention of the mono ski sport has gained in popularity very quickly. Now, skiers with disabilities who can not abide, they can sit in on crutches and fixed with special short skis, are able to control and maintain balance.
Cross Country
With the Paralympic Games in 1976 in Örnsköldsvik Sweden occur in skiing got its start. The first is the classical form was allowed. Now 30occurred many years later, many changes, the door opens to a large number of skiers with a variety of disabilities adopted.
Wheelchair curling
The sport began at the Winter Paralympics in Turin, Italy. Played very similar, with the exception of curling athletes regularly sit in a wheelchair, or push the stones with his arm action or use a handle called Cue, down the ice on concentric rings. The responsibility for printing the stone is more demanding than the regularCurling, because athletes have to play, while the chair is stationary.
Ice Sledge Hockey
The exciting sport Ice Sledge Hockey Paralympic Games had its beginning in 1994 in the beautiful city of Lillehammer, Norway Others The slide is usually made of aluminum with two blades of steel. The players wear two double-ended sticks. They have a pick on one end and a curved blade, which they use to flip the disc. The recovery of the players can gain ground, to lead theirSlide on ice.
Skiing and biathlon shooting
The main difference between Olympic and Paralympic Biathlon Biathlon is the firing position. It 's always the stomach in the sport second. The categories are the same as skiing. Equipment for skiers, who did not use the legs, use a device called a sit-ski. This is a very demanding sport.
The Paralympic Games in Vancouver in 2010 promising, offering excitement for allthose who wanted to participate.
Become one of the lucky ones who do?
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