Historically, in 1976, the first winter games in paralympics were held in sweden, and just like the summer.

Paralympic games year. The games are now the 2nd biggest sporting event in the world. Remembering barcelona 1992, a pivotal paralympic games, 30 years on. It took another eight years until the very first paralympic games were officially held in rome in 1960.

Alpine skiing and cross country skiing. The very first paralympic games. The event includes athletes with mobility.

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

Comparable to the olympic games, the paralympics are split into winter games and summer. For years, the games have given her the chance to compete at. In the same year, the first ever paralympics winter games took place in sweden.

That year, the winter paralympics had 196 athletes participating in only two sports; The first paralympic games in rome in 1960 featured 400 athletes from 23 countries. We spoke to dave maccalman, team captain, and evan clulee, a paralympic debutante, to hear what it.

Ludwig guttmann organised the first stoke mandeville games for disabled athletes in 1948, a forerunner of the paralympic games. Since then, the paralympics have been held once every four years. Paralympic games on the bbc.