Paralympic Games
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics are a periodic series of international multi-sport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities, including impaired muscle power (e.g. paraplegia and quadriplegia, muscular dystrophy, post-polio syndrome, spina bifida), impaired passive range of movement, limb deficiency (e.g. amputation or dysmelia), leg length difference, short stature, hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis, vision impairment and intellectual impairment. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, are held almost immediately following the respective Olympic Games. All Paralympic Games are governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). The Paralympics has grown from …
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NSP: New Society Publishers · 7 May 2024 English
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ICP: Institute for Community Prosperity · 27 February 2024 English
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APF: Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada · 24 November 2023 Thai
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APF: Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada · 22 November 2023 English
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DABC: Disability Alliance BC · 6 November 2023 English
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CASEM: Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine · 2023 English
organized sports and the popularity of the Paralympic Games is steadily increasing in both Canada and …
DABC: Disability Alliance BC · 29 November 2022 English
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Newfoundland & Labrador Department of Child, Youth and Family Services · 23 September 2022 English
As per the Council’s mandate, this annual report serves to advise the Minister Responsible for the Status of Persons with Disabilities on issues critical to the inclusion of persons with …
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QSEP: Research Institute for Quantitative Studies in Economics and Population · 25 August 2022 English
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Representations of Disability at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games,” Communication & Sport 9(1), 2021. • K. Lindemann …
City of Thunder Bay, Ontario · 18 March 2022 English
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