G.R.Y.B.B.
Comenius School Development Project
The RED RING
HOORN – HOLLAND
7-11 november 2005
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• 1948 England: Ludwing Guttmann
organized a sports competition for the
veterans of the World War II with spinal
cord injury.
• 1952 England: first International
Stoke Mandeville Games, was born an
international movement
• 1960 Rome: first Paralympic
Games
• 1976 Sweden: first Paralympic
Winter Games
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There are three
categories for disabled
athletes: STANDING
(amputees), SITTING
(paraplegics and
amputees from both
legs) and SIGHTLESS
(from partially-sighted to
completely blind).
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The Paralympic Games have
always been held in the same
years as the Olympic Games.
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.
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Summer Sports
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Archery
Athletics
Boccia
Bowls
Cycling
Equestrian
Football 5 or 7
Goalball
Judo
Powerlifting
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Summer Sports
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Sailing
Shooting
Swimming
Table Tennis
Volleyball
Wheelchair basketball
Wheelchair Dance
sport
• Wheelchair fencing
• Wheelchair rugby
• Wheelchair tennis
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ATHLETICS has been part
of the Paralympic Games
since the very beginning
in 1960. Over the next
twenty year, additional
groups of athletes with a
disability were able to
join the Paralympic
competition.
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Many athletics events require
specific sports equipment.
• Wheelchairs the dimension and
features are clearly specified in
the IPC Athletics rules.
• Prosthetic devices may be
used by amputees.
• Rope tethers or other devices
may be used by runners with a
visual impairment to link with their
sighted guides.
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Winter Sports
• Alpine Skiing
• Ice Sledge Hockey
• Nordic Skiing
• Wheelchair curling
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The disabled skiers need
particular equipment in order
to be able to practise this
sport: for instance, the
monoski, a complicated gear;
the artificial limbs, wich are
really expensive. In Italy, we
have a governement agency,
INAIL, wich deals with the
problem of disabled people
and give these athletes most
of the outfits they need to
practice their sport activies.
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MELANIA CORRADINI
In our school there is Melania
Corradini, borned without an
arm: the National Ski Team
contacted her and in the 2006
Paralympics Games she has
the ambitious goal to win all
four events.
We’ve spoken with her…
“I don’t feel different from my
friends, I’m just the same as
the others!!”
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