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1、Paralympic GamesIn 1948, Sir Ludwig Guttmann organized a sports competition involving World War II veterans with a spinal cord injury in Stoke Mandeville, England. Four years later, competitors fromthe Netherlandsjoined the games and an international movement was born. Olympic style games for athlet
2、es with a disability were organized for the first time in Rome in 1960, now called Paralympics. In Toronto in 1976, other disability groups were added and the idea of merging together different disability groups for international sport competitions was born. In the same year, the first Paralympic Wi
3、nter Games took place in Sweden.Today, the Paralympics are elite sport events for athletes from six different disability groups. They emphasize, however, the participants athletic achievements rather than their disability. The movement has grown dramatically since its first days. The number of athle
4、tes participating in Summer Paralympic Games has increased from 400 athletes from 23 countries in Rome in 1960 to 3806 athletes from 136 countries in Athens in 2004.The Paralympic Games have always been held in the same year as the Olympic Games. Since the Seoul 1988 Paralympic Games and the Albertv
5、ille 1992 Winter Paralympic Games they have also taken place at the same venues as the Olympics. On 19 June 2001, an agreement was signed between IOC and IPC securing this practice for the future. From the 2012 bid process onwards, the host city chosen to host the Olympic Games will be obliged to also host the Paralympics.TheChinese city of Beijing will host the next 2008 Paralympic Games, whereas theWinter Paralympics 2010 will be in Vancouver, Canada. London will host the Paralympics in 2012.1