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Paralympics history definition. [plural noun] a series of international contests for athletes with disabilities that are associated with and held following the summer and winter olympic games — 18.in 1976, the first winter. The first paralympic games were held in rome, italy in 1960 and featured 400 athletes.

The australian team parades around the acqua acetosa ground in rome on sept. The paralympic games are international sports competitions for people with disabilities. First founded as an archery contest for 16 disabled veterans, the games now rival the olympics as an athletic.

The paralympic games took place in two locations in 1984: Paralympic sports refers to organized competitive sporting activities as part of the global paralympic movement. Paraplegics were depressed and discarded.

Here's a brief history of the games. How the paralympic movement evolved into a major sporting event. Paralympic games, major international sports competition for athletes with disabilities.

Comparable to the olympic games, the paralympics are split into winter games and summer. Paralympics is a major international sports competition for the athletes with disabilities. Paraplegia and quadriplegia, muscular dystrophy, spina bifida), impaired passive range of movement, limb deficiency (e.g.

Info@paralympic.org www.paralympic.org history and use of the term ‘paralympic’ origin and meanings of the term ‘paralympic’1 the origins of the term ‘paralympic’ lie in the. The paralympics take place shortly after the olympic games , in the same host city. Opening ceremony of the rome 1960 paralympic games.