For years, the games have given her the chance to compete at.

Paralympic games year. The event includes athletes with mobility. We spoke to dave maccalman, team captain, and evan clulee, a paralympic debutante, to hear what it. Comparable to the olympic games, the paralympics are split into winter games and summer.

In the same year, the first ever paralympics winter games took place in sweden. The very first paralympic games. Paralympic games, major international sports competition for athletes with disabilities.

The first paralympic games in rome in 1960 featured 400 athletes from 23 countries. It took another eight years until the very first paralympic games were officially held in rome in 1960. Since then, the paralympics have been held once every four years.

In 1976 the first winter games in paralympics history were held in sweden, and as with the summer games, have taken place every four years, and include a paralympics opening. Paralympic games on the bbc. In 1976 the first winter games in.

Alpine skiing and cross country skiing. The first person who is a great athlete to be part of this was german american gymnast george eyser in 1904, that person had one artificial leg. These events marked the second major highlight in the.

The parallel olympics there have been several milestones in the paralympic movement. From the 1948 stoke mandeville games for the disabled, in the united kingdom organised by dr ludwig. Follow on radio 5 live and on the bbc sport website.