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The Inspiring Athletes Of The Paralympics

The hype in the Winter Olympics Could be fading away, However the Anticipation for the 2018 Winter Paralympics taking place in PyeongChang, South Korea is simply igniting.

This year's Paralympics is a record-breaking one, with 567 Athletes competing, which makes it the biggest Winter Paralympics thus far.

The Paralympics offers athletes with disabilities worldwide to Compete at a sporting event equivalent to the Olympics. The eligibility of athletes that can compete is broken up into six classes such as people with spinal injuries, or people that are amputees. The Paralympics and Olympics follow the same program and take place in exactly the same locations.

However, the Paralympics don't collapse under the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which also oversee the Special Olympics and Deaflympics. Amid fireworks and Korean pop songs, Seo Soonseok of South Korea lit the Paralympic cauldron thus signaling the start of the Paralympics!

History Of those Paralympics

Disabled athletes have made their mark long before the Production of the Paralympics. Take George Eyser who participates at the 1904 Summer Olympics having a leg.

The Paralympics started instead for war veterans who Had sustained injuries. The starting point for the Paralympics was an event for wheelchair athletes made by Dr. Ludwig Guttmann in 1948, the exact same year as the London Olympics. These initial games were
known as the Stoke Mandeville Games, also became truly global in 1952 with the addition of Israeli and Dutch athletes.

The very first official Paralympics games started in 1960 in Rome, and have continued since. While the 1960 Paralympic Games weren't exclusive to war veterans, it was only limited to athletes in wheelchairs. It was through the efforts of the International Organisation of Sports for the Disabled (IOSD) that athletes with all impairments were contained. The 1976 Summer Olympics saw an inclusion of 1,600 new athletes ranging from 40 countries. In 2016, the Olympic and Paralympic committees signed an agreement that will extend until 2032, with goals to bring consciousness to the Paralympics and ensure its longevity.

Breaking Boundaries

While the Paralympic and Olympic games are equivalent for the most Part, many Paralympic athletes have raised concerns about financing and coverage of the events.

Three American Paralympic athletes also have submitted a litigation Accusing United States Olympic Committee of a difference in financing. While the athletes did not win the lawsuit, funding allocated to Paralympic athletes did triple in the years 2004 to 2008. David Weir, a six-time Paralympic gold medallist, is an advocate for greater visibility for disabled athletes and has suggested combining the Paralympic and Olympic games.

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The Paralympics is not short of groundbreaking athletes. If you Love playing table tennis, you may be motivated by Ibrahim Hamato of Egypt, who lost his arms in an accident but did not let it interfere with his passion for table tennis. Hamato has adopted his own style of playing table tennis, using his mouth to hold the racket! Oksana Experts of the US, who has her legs amputated, is set to compete in the 2018 Paralympics in four sports two at the summertime and two in the winter.

What we can learn from these athletes is never to stop fighting -- outside circumstances don't dictate whether or not you attain your dream.