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In 1948, Sir Ludwig Guttmann organized a sports competition involving World War II veterans with a spinal cord injury in Stoke Mandeville, England. Four years later, competitors from the Netherlands joined the games and an international movement was born. Olympic style games for athletes with a disability were organized for the first time in Rome in 1960, now called Paralympics. In Toronto in 1976, other disability groups were added and the idea of merging together different disability groups for international sport competitions was born. In the same year, the first Paralympic Winter Games took place in Sweden.

Today, the Paralympics are elite sport events for athletes from six different disability groups. They emphasize, however, the participants' athletic achievements rather than their disability. The movement has grown dramatically since its first days. The number of athletes participating in Summer Paralympic Games has increased from 400 athletes from 23 countries in Rome in 1960 to 3806 athletes from 136 countries in Athens in 2004.

The Paralympic Games have always been held in the same year as the Olympic Games. Since the Seoul 1988 Paralympic Games and the Albertville 1992 Winter Paralympic Games they have also taken place at the same venues as the Olympics. On 19 June 2001, an agreement was signed between IOC and IPC securing this practice for the future. From the 2012 bid process onwards, the host city chosen to host the Olympic Games will be obliged to also host the Paralympics.

The Chinese city of Beijing will host the next 2008 Paralympic Games, whereas the Winter Paralympics 2010 will be in Vancouver, Canada. London will host the Paralympics in 2012 and Sochi will be the host of the 2014 Winter Paralympics.

Participating Nations can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Summer_Paralympi...

It start with the idea of rehabting injury serves people from world war 2.

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The first Paralympic games where in Rome 1960.

The Paralympic torch and first flag start in Seoul 88.

Athletes since 60

Archery

Boccia (unique to the Paralympic Cerebral palsy wheelchair class

Cycling

Equestrain

Fencing

Football 5 aside B1 blind 04 and 7 aside Cerebral palsy

Goal ball (unique to the Paralympic and for vision impaired all athlete

play with blind folds)

Judo

Power lifting

Rowing making it debut

Sailing

Shooting

Sitting Volley ball (Iran are gold medals in the men and have over a 1000 sitting volley ball players.

Swimming

Table tennis

Wheelchair Basketball

Wheelchair Tennis

Wheelchair Rugby

Aputees, Cerebral Palsy, Vision Impaired, Wheelchair, Les Autres

Most of the Country in the Olympics

China will compete in all sports and have 332 athletes

Winter Paralympic

Down Hill Skiing 4 disclpines

Biathon

Sledge Ice Hockey

Curling

The word Para come from Paralle

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