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	1976 Summer Paralympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1976 Summer Paralympics were the fifth Paralympic Games to be held.
		1976 was the first time Canada has hosted the Paralympics, subsequently Canada will host the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver.
		Losing the bid for the 2008 Summer Olympics (2008 Summer Paralympics) was seen as being a boost to the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics bid.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1976_Summer_Paralympics (142 words)

	1976 Winter Paralympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1976 Winter Paralympic Games were the first winter Paralympics.
		The disabilities included in this paralympics were blindness and amputees.
		1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1976_Winter_Paralympics (86 words)

	Paralympic Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		[1] The first Winter Paralympics were held in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden in 1976.
		This practice was adopted in 1992 for the Winter Paralympics, and became an official policy of the International Olympic Committee and the IPC following a June 19, 2001 agreement.
		Dwarfism, multiple sclerosis or birth deformities of the limbs such as that caused by thalidomide are examples of this.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paralympic_games (678 words)

	search.com - 2004 Summer Paralympics - Search.com Reference
		The exclusion was introduced after the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, the first games with events exclusively for people with learning difficulties, after it was found that the majority of the Spanish basketball team were not disabled.
		The International Paralympic Committee stated that the exclusion would continue until there are sufficient tests for the disabilities and a way to measure the effect they have on a sport.
		The traditional cultural display was removed from the ceremony as a mark of respect for the deaths of 37 teenagers and 4 teachers from Farkadona, travelling to Athens, whose bus collided with a lorry near the town of Kamena Vourla.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/2004_Summer_Paralympics (960 words)

	CBC Sports Online
		The Paralympic Nordic skiing competitions are held over six days with events for men and women in short-distance, middle-distance, long-distance, relay and biathlon events.
		While Paralympic biathletes require the same balance as their Olympic counterparts -- the strength and endurance of a cross-country skier, the calm and precision of a sharpshooter -- there are significant differences in the two versions of biathlon.
		An important development in Paralympic competition was the introduction of a new percentage system, which made its debut at the Nagano 1998 Paralympic Winter Games, allowing athletes with different ability levels to compete with one another for the first time.
	www.cbc.ca /sports/paralympics/nordic_skiing.html (1620 words)

	Paralympic Games
		Sir Ludwig Guttmann[?] organized a sports competition in 1948 which became known as the Stoke Mandeville Games, involving World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries[?]; in 1952 competitors from the Netherlands took part.
		The first Olympic Style games for disabled athletes were held in Rome in 1960 which became the Paralympics.
		The first Winter Paralympics were held in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden in 1976.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pa/Paralympic_games.html (178 words)

	2016 Summer Paralympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is likely to contain information of a speculative nature and the content may change dramatically as the event approaches and more information becomes available.
		The 2016 Summer Paralympic Games will be the fifteenth Paralympics.
		1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012,
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2016_Summer_Paralympics (113 words)

	Paralympics
		The Paralympics are the second-largest sports competition in the world, after the Olympics; the 2000 Summer Games included 3,843 athletes from 123 nations.
		The Paralympics are coordinated by the International Paralympic Committee, founded in 1989 (succeeding several committees that had existed before then), which is the only international organization representing all sports and disabilities.
		The Paralympics have continued to grow, and the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul were once again held in the same venues as the Olympics.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/paralympics.html (599 words)

	2004.com - Olympic history - Modern history - Paralympics
		On 28 july 1948, the opening day of the London Olympic Games, a sports competition for World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries was held and twelve years later, in Rome, Italy, 1960, Guttman's “impossible” dream came true when the first disabled persons entered the Olympics.
		In 1976 in Ornskoldsvik in Sweden was the first international winter games arranged for disabled persons.
		In 1992 the first winter Paralympics was held at the Albertville Winter Games in France.
	www.2004.com /ohistory_modern_paralympics.asp (220 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Winter Olympics 2002 \| Paralympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		United States' Sarah Will wins the women's giant slalom at the Winter Paralympics to claim the 11th gold medal of her career.
		Russell Docker and Stephen Napier are ready to fly the flag for Britain at the 2002 Winter Paralympics.
		The Paralympic Winter Games were first held in Sweden in 1976, but the international movement is much older.
	news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/hi/english/paralympics/default.stm (351 words)

	Paralympics at the Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The concept of the paralympics originated at the Stroke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, England to honor veterans who suffered from spinal injuries from World War II.
		The games grew by the winter games in 1976 and by the summer games of 1992 in Barcelona, Spain there were 82 competing nations and about 3,500 athletes completing.
		Paralympics is an athletic sporting event for the physically disabled including amputees, the blind and persons suffering from cerebral palsy.
	library.thinkquest.org /J002862/para.htm (299 words)

	2002 Winter Olympics - Paralympics
		The Paralympic movement began as the dream of an English neurosurgeon Sir Ludwig Guttman, with the goal of providing athletes with disabilities the opportunity to compete at an international level equivalent to non-disabled athletes.
		Although the term Paralympics originally was derived from the word paraplegic, the prefix "para" is now interpreted as defining the games for disabled athletes which have evolved to "parallel" and complement to the Olympic Games.
		The 1988 summer Paralympic Games in Seoul, Korea was considered the beginning of the modern Paralympics as the emphasis clearly shifted from a "rehab" model to one of sport and athletic competition.
	www.utah.com /olympics/paralympics.htm (448 words)

	Winter Paralympics
		Roots of the Winter Paralympics trace back to Austria, where Sepp Zwicknagl, a double-leg amputee, was among the first individuals to use prostheses to ski down a slope.
		The Lillehammer Paralympics marked the first time the Paralympic Winter Games were held in the same location as the Winter Olympics, a tradition that has continued through an agreement of cooperation between the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee.
		The 1998 Nagano Winter Paralympics in Japan were the first to be held outside of Europe, and the following Games in 2002 in Salt Lake City were the first on U.S. soil, hosting 406 athletes.
	www.abilitymagazine.com /past/Natalie_Glebova/Paralympics.html (1617 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		In Toronto in 1976, other disability groups were added and the idea of merging together different disability groups for international sports competitions was born.
		The next Summer Paralympics in 2008 will be held in Beijing, China, with the 2010 Winter Paralympics being staged from 12 to 21 March (2010) in Canada.
		The IPC organises, supervises and coordinates the Paralympic Games and other multi-disability sports competitions at elite level, of which the most important are world and regional championships.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/paralympic/index_uk.asp (544 words)

	Paralympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Paralympic Winter Games are a powerful celebration of sport, which awakens the Mind, frees the Body and inspires the Spirit.
		The Paralympics grew out of a small meeting in 1948 at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury, England, There, neurosurgeon Sir Ludwig Guttmann undertook an innovative treatment program that used sport as a primary rehabilitation element for persons with spinal injuries.
		Otto the Otter, the mascot of the Salt Lake 2002 Paralympics, exemplifies the competitors' resilience, vitality and agility in their drive to reach the pinnacle of excellence in sport.
	www.das.state.ut.us /cc/Mar2002/paralympics1.htm (437 words)

	CBC.CA - Torino 2006 Paralympics
		Paralympic alpine skiing events are similar to those contested at the Olympic Games.
		The profile of the sport grew in 1976, when men's and women's slalom and giant slalom events were included in the first Paralympic Winter Games at Ornskoldsvik, Sweden.
		The downhill was added to the roster of events at the 1984 Innsbruck Paralympics, where sit-skiing, which would later become known as mono-skiing, was also brought on as a demonstration sport.
	www.cbc.ca /paralympics/sportprimers/alpineskiing.shtml (633 words)

	Calgary's Bill Harriott to carry Canadian flag
		"This is one of the strongest Winter Paralympic teams we've ever put together," said Jarvis, who raced the 800 and 1,500 metre track events at the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona.
		The first Winter Paralympics were in Ornskoldsvik, Sweden, in 1976, featuring 400 athletes and 21 countries.
		While the Paralympics do not fall under the International Olympic Committee's charter, the Games take place in the host Olympic city, the participants stay in the Olympic village and the Olympic venues host some of the 32 medal events.
	slam.canoe.ca /1998Paralympics/mar4_flag.html (680 words)

	Paralympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Since the modern Paralympics include athletes with a wide variety of disabilities, the prefix para is now interpreted to mean parallel.
		Although ski races for the disabled have been held since 1950, it was not until 16 years later that first Paralympic Winter Games were hosted in 1976 by Sweden.
		The VIII Paralympic Winter Games of 2002 will be held March 7 -16, in Salt Lake City, Utah, and will feature the world's best disabled athletes.
	2002.uen.org /html/sports/paralympics.html (902 words)

	The Official Site of the U.S. Paralympic Team
		The Paralympic Games is an international competition among each nation’s elite athletes with physical disabilities and is second in size only to the Olympic Games.
		The Paralympic Winter Games showcase four sports, and were first held in 1976.
		The Paralympic Games offers competition to athletes who are blind or visually impaired, to athletes with amputated limbs or similar impairments, to athletes with spinal cord injuries and athletes who have motor impairments due to cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, or stroke.
	www.usoc.org /paralympics/paralympic_games.html (161 words)

	2004.com - Olympic history - Modern history - Winter Games
		Even if there were ice figure skating already in the London Olympics in 1908 and in Amsterdam 1920 together with an ice hockey tournament, the first Winter Olympic Games took place in Chamonix, France in 1924.
		In the first Games there were Nordic Skiing, Nordic Jumping, Bobsleigh, Skeleton, Ice Hockey, Speed Skating and Figure skating for men, women and pairs.
		From 1994 the Winter Games is arranged every fourth year, two years after the Summer Games.
	www.2004.com /ohistory_modern_winter.asp (103 words)

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		Today, the Paralympics are elite sport events for athletes from six different disability groups.
		The number of athletes participating in Summer Paralympic Games has increased from 400 athletes from 23 countries in Rome in 1960 to 3806 athletes from 136 countries in Athens in 2004.
		Since the Seoul 1988 Paralympic Games and the Albertville 1992 Winter Paralympic Games they have also taken place at the same venues as the Olympics.
	www.paralympic.org /release/Main_Sections_Menu/Paralympic_Games (411 words)

	1976 Olympics
		The IOC originally gave the 1976 Winter Games to Denver, but in 1972 Colorado voters rejected a $5 million bond issue to finance the undertaking.
		For the second straight Winter Carnival the USSR and East Germany finished 1–2 in overall medals.
		Nadia Comaneci - Gymnast, born 12 November 1961, Perfect-scoring Romanian gymnast of the 1976 Olympics
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0300769.html (362 words)

	Winter Paralympics open at Nagano
		NAGANO, Japan (AP) -- The Winter Paralympic Games opened today with athletes from a record 32 countries taking part in a ceremony at the M-Wave indoor oval, the site of Olympic speedskating last month.
		These are the first Winter Paralympics ever held outside Europe.
		Robert Steadward, president of the International Paralympic Committee, compared the event to the first Winter Paralympics in Sweden in 1976, when 250 athletes from 14 countries participated.
	www.canoe.ca /1998Paralympics/mar5_open.html (188 words)

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