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What sports may we expect?Where will each sport venue be located?Now take a look at these titles one by one to enable us to be better informed. So just what are the games about? The second world war had a profound effect on people of the world who lived through that terrible conflict. Millions of brave soldiers, sailors and airmen lost their lives in the quest to win freedom for the rest of us. For every death, many more were wounded and a great number were disabled for life. Thousands were in wheelchairs. Countless numbers of these brave souls had lost limbs. Sir Ludwig Guttmann was born in Poland in. Byhe was a leading neurologist working at a Jewish hospital nike football boots mercurial in the beautiful city of Breslau on the Oder river. He was forced to flee to England when the Germans invaded Poland.

He strongly believed that sport was a wonderful therapy for building physical strength and the well being of those who were severely injured. The British government founded the National Spinal Injuries Center in a city near London and asked him to be the director of the center. He organized different games the disabled could play. Each year a few more athletes would enter the games byapproximatelywere entered. The Olympics directors were beginning to take notice of these games and beginning in Rome inthe Paralympics Games were held after the Olympic Games and it has been that way ever since. Guttmann was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and the Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for his outstanding leadership.

The Paralympics Winter Games were first held in Sweden inand have been a regular feature of the Olympic games format since thegames in Albertville. What qualifies as a disability? There are six basic groups within the Paralympics qualification movement. Those are spinal cord injuries, visual impairment, amputee, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability and another group with disabilities that are outside the box and do not fit into any other category. Each sport has its own classification rules. Athletes are governed by officials know as classifiers who will observe the athletes both in and out of their sport. If an athlete improves, he/she may be reclassified up or down. The system continues to evolve and is always open to review.

The Torino Paralympic Winter Games saw the first entry to this sport. The sport requires that the entrant must have a disability to the lower half of the body. You must require a wheelchair for mobility. Your disability could include double amputation, multiple sclerosis, a spine nike huarache junior injury or cerebral palsy. In this sport no brooms are used as in curling for the able bodied athletes. So how does it work?Wheelchair Curling works similar to shuffleboard in one way and bowling in another. The teams made up of both male and female athletes play against another team. The object of the game is to propel the.kilogram stone down to the other end of the ice where concentric rings are marked on the ice similar to a bulls-eye. An end is similar to an inning in baseball or a period in a period in hockey. The teams play six ends.