11.3.1. Paralympic Games.

Paralympic Games

Just a  Bezárás (1): JXUwMDNlJXUwMDAzJXUwMDEy weeks after the Olympic Games it is the time for the Paralympics. They are the Olympic  Bezárás (2): JXUwMDNkJXUwMDEzJXUwMDEzJXUwMDBiJXUwMDFh for athletes with physical and  Bezárás (3): JXUwMDM1JXUwMDA4JXUwMDBiJXUwMDFhJXUwMDE1JXUwMDBk disabilities. They usually take place  in the Bezárás (4): JXUwMDJiJXUwMDEyJXUwMDBjJXUwMDA4 cities that hosted the Olympic Summer (and/or Winter) Games. The idea of Paralympic Games was born in 1948, when Sir Ludwig Guttmann  Bezárás (5): JXUwMDM3JXUwMDFkJXUwMDE1JXUwMDA2JXUwMDBmJXUwMDA3JXUwMDEzJXUwMDFmJXUwMDAx a sports competition in England for World War II  Bezárás (6): JXUwMDJlJXUwMDEzJXUwMDExJXUwMDExJXUwMDE3JXUwMDEzJXUwMDBmJXUwMDFk with physical disabilities.  Four years later the event became international when participants from Holland  Bezárás (7): JXUwMDMyJXUwMDA1JXUwMDA2JXUwMDA3JXUwMDBiJXUwMDAx in.

In 1960 the Paralympics became an Olympic event. 400  Bezárás (8): JXUwMDM5JXUwMDE1JXUwMDFjJXUwMDA0JXUwMDA5JXUwMDExJXUwMDExJXUwMDE2 from all over the world went to Rome in 1960, while in Athens in 2004 there were more than 3800 athletes from different parts of the world and they  Bezárás (9): JXUwMDNiJXUwMDBjJXUwMDAyJXUwMDFkJXUwMDE1JXUwMDExJXUwMDExJXUwMDAx in 19 sports.    ’Para’ is a Greek word meaning ’alongside, beside’. So the word paralympics means ’the game Bezárás (10): JXUwMDI4JXUwMDExJXUwMDEzJXUwMDEzJXUwMDBkJXUwMDAwJXUwMDA5JXUwMDA5 to the Olympic Games’.

(Adapted from https://www.ego4u.com/en/read-on/animals/olympic/paralympic)