What are the Paralympics and how do they differ to the Olympics? The Paralympics are games that allow athletes with disabilities to participate in an international competition against athletes with similar or the same disabilities. There are five different disability groups that are registered in the games. There are nineteen different sports, four of which are unique to the Paralympics. ‘Para’ refers to the Greek term ‘beside’ or ‘alongside’. They chose this because it refers to the fact that members
The Paralympic Games is an international competition including participants with a variety of physical and intellectual disabilities. These disabilities include mobility disabilities, blindness, cerebral palsy, and amputations. The Paralympics give a person with disabilities the chance to demonstrate his or her abilities. Not only do the Paralympics benefit disabled people, but also non-disabled people who are observing. In my opinion, the Paralympics are a way for a disabled person to overcome the
The Paralympic Games Contrary to what many people think, the prefix ‘para’ in the word ‘Paralympic’ stands for parallel, and not paraplegic. The Paralympic Games is an international multi-sport event comprising of athletes with a range of disabilities organised in parallel to the Olympics. The Paralympic Games are only open to athletes with disabilities falling under the ten eligible impairment types such as vision impairment and intellectual impairment. The ten impairment types are further broken
Introduction Every four years the Summer Olympic and Paralympic games combine to become the largest single sporting movement on the globe. The combination of these sporting events is characterized by a complex and contradictory relationship (Paralympic Sport: Are We Equal Yet, 2010). The Paralympics are intended as a parallel event to the Olympics and it is a relationship that often makes the Paralympics seen as nothing more than a "side show" to the Summer Olympics. These aspects in the relationship
in 1895. Morgan was a physical education teacher at the YMCA and called it "mintonette". It was an indoor or outdoor pastime that had characteristics of both handball and tennis. The first rules were written down by Morgan himself. He wrote that the game called for a 6 foot 6 inch net and a court of 25x50 feet. A match composed of 9 innings and 3 serves for each team in each inning. In case of a serving error they got a second chance just like in tennis. If the ball it the net on a serve it was considered