Paralympics: A Game for Impaired Athletes

Paralympics: A Game for Impaired Athletes

The Paralympics is a game for impaired athletes. It is also known as Paralympiad. Paralympics are held in the same year as the Olympic games. This sports game provides opportunities to impaired athletes to compete at their best level. This game is not just about sports; it’s about overcoming barriers, and turning impossibilities into possibilities.

History of Paralympics

In 1948, after the Second World War, the small group of British soldiers who got spinal injuries started competing in the archery, which later became a worldwide movement in sports.

In 1960, the official Paralympics game started in Rome. In this event, 400 athletes participated from 23 countries. After that, this game grew rapidly by involving 1000 athletes from more than 100 countries.

Paralympics has 27 sports of which 22 are for summers and 5 for winters.

The reason behind the growth of Paralympics is that the wide range of athletes with several disabilities like; amputations, limb deficiency, spinal cord injuries, visual impairments, hypertonia, ataxia and many more can participate in sports like; wheelchair basketball, Boccia, sitting volleyball and many more.

The athletes that participate in these games are not just known by their disabilities but they are known by their abilities, by this they pushed the limits of physical abilities.

Due to Paralympics every athlete, regardless of their physical limitations is given the opportunity to shine so that they can prove that by determination, skill and hard work, everyone can do anything in their life.

Innovation in Paralympics

The most remarkable innovation of Paralympics did in sports, is the using of equipment and technology in the game. By providing lightweight wheelchairs and advanced prosthetics, this game showcases the uses and importance of advancement of technologies, and also it provides the platform to impaired athletes so that they can perform their best along with their disabilities.

Closing

The Paralympics game is not just a sports game in fact it is a powerful platform that upgrades the societal norms and promotes the activities for the people with disabilities. The success of this game inspires millions of people by showcasing the problems and challenges faced by the people of disabilities. In future, Paralympics will grow more and more people from around the world will participate in it to showcases their skills even with their disabilities.

In the last, I just want to say that by looking at these athletes we learn one thing which is that;
“ The obstacles are only the ones which we place on ourselves”.
By this game we can learn that by determination, skill and urge to do something we can turn any impossible thing into possible.