Paralympic Games Return Home after 64 Years

Xinhua, London on August 24 report (reporter ShiChunDong) British neurosurgeon Ludwig guttman · jazz never think, their organization of the disabled games become the global disabled sports event. In the 64 years later, the first paralympic games and, compared to the number of entries scale up ten times above, and with "the 14th London paralympics" name, return to Britain.

In 1948, in order to let soldiers for spinal cord injury cause paralysis of the lower limbs can be cured as soon as possible, Ludwig guttman · jazz and some keen undertakings for disabled persons of celebrities organized a field by 16 disabled soldiers in a wheelchair games, and this became the prototype of the paralympic games. The first paralympic games held in Rome, Italy in 1960. This session has eight categories, 57 games, from 23 countries and regions of 400 athletes, these contestants are all the athletes of spinal cord injury. After the three paralympic games, lawn bowling, women's basketball and man wheelchair 100 meters paralympics, new projects, and athletes classification system has taken the new rules. What is worth mentioning, the paralympic games first appeared on TV. Local television for Ontario every day in the southern part of the country more than spectators to provide television signal. And in 1996, the paralympic games for the first time in Atlanta not only attract sponsorship from all over the world, but also the fusion in different fields of the disabled art, further extended the influence of the paralympic games.

The 2008 Beijing paralympic larger, there are 147 delegations of more than 4000 athletes to participate, only the reporter are 5500 people. A total of 20 categories, 472 minor term, which is the history of the most games of the paralympic games. And London 2012 paralympic games have come from 160 countries and regions in 4200 athletes compete in 20 categories, 300 minor term game, this is the largest number of participating the paralympic games in history, and there are more than ten nations which has never participate the paralympic meeting and sent the delegation to the paralympic games.