Blind hockey is an excellent spectator sport as it is easily recognizable to the average hockey fan, with minimal rule adaptations to help with gameplay and player safety.

Paralympics blind hockey. The two newest sports to be given paralympic status are badminton and taekwondo, which will. Matt is an australian paralympic swimmer at the age of 34. There are currently 28 paralympic sports sanctioned by the ipc:

As of 2020, the summer paralympics included 22 sports and 539 medal events, [1] and. Levy first competed for australia. Canadian blind hockey player mark demontis skated across canada and arrived in vancouver.

That will all change in. Blind hockey players from across the country will compete for spots on the team to represent the u.s. Para alpine skiing is an original winter paralympic sport, having featured at every edition since ornskoldsvik 1976.

Blind football has been a paralympic sport since the athens 2004 paralympic games. At the 2026 paralympics and other international hockey competitions. Blind soccer has been part of the paralympic games since 2004, but the u.s.

Levy has cerebral palsy and vision impairment due to being born 15 weeks premature. Skiers who are blind or partially sighted have. Blind hockey is an excellent spectator sport as it is easily recognizable to the average hockey fan, with minimal rule adaptations to help with gameplay and player safety.

22 summer and six winter. The paralympic sports comprise all the sports contested in the summer and winter paralympic games. Though not yet on the paralympic winter games program, the international blind ice.