Paralympic Games - a field in which for many years successfully perform our athletes, showing almost sverhvozmozhnosti.Number of won awards at paralimpitsev often exceeds the number of medals that earned the main Olympic team.For example, in 2010 the Russian Paralympic team were the first in the team event, winning 38 medals.
Paralympic Games, whose history includes a few decades, disproportionately younger than the Olympic Games themselves.Recent history goes back thousands of years and is considered the ancestor of some legends Zeus, on the other - Hercules.The first games that have historical evidence, recognized competitions, the king established epiphyte in Greece in the ninth century BC.They were designed to stop civil strife in fragmented into many small states of Greece at the time and demonstrate the agility, strength and health of the athletes.
that the movement has a positive effect on the recovery of the body after injury was seen in the 18th century.Also in the early 20th century in Paris were the first attempts to involve people with disabilities to compete.For them, in 1924, the championship was held in athletics, shooting, swimming, cycling and soccer, which was the prototype of what in 1960 was called "the Paralympic Games."An interesting feature of the competition for the Deaf was that teams coming from different countries, well communicated without interpreters, becausedaktilologicheskaya international system at the time allowed them to understand each other through gestures.
However, until 1960, when in Rome competed 400 athletes from more than 20 countries, there was another event which also relates to the history of the Paralympic Games.It - Stoke Mandeville Games in 1948, which in archery athletes competed paralyzed, former military.Such competition was wide support for charities and persons with disabilities, which are listed large donations for the construction of a specially equipped stadium.
Today the Paralympic Games are held in summer and winter time in four years after the Olympic Games.At the same time the Winter Games are held in the same city as the summer.The summer program includes more than 20 kinds of sports - from a variety of exercises in wheelchairs (rugby, basketball, fencing) to dressage.The winter program includes the biathlon, cross-country skiing, curling on wheels, sledge-hockey, and in 2014 the program will also include exercises for snowboarding.
first Paralympic Games, swimming in the program which gave the development of the sport, the athletes allowed to compete today without limbs, deaf, blind.The number of participants is increasing every year, and the technical equipment, special conditions and rules allow to swim on an equal footing, for example, visually impaired and totally blind athletes.
Paralympic Games are held in the same way as the Olympics.Here there is a doping control (2004), an analysis of the health of athletes, the opening ceremony, the closing account of the medals, the team standings.It is interesting that in the near future in this discipline as racing wheelchair is scheduled to open competition among ordinary athletes.And perhaps they also will be included in the Olympic program.
