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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ICP: Institute for Community Prosperity · 27 February 2024 English

He is an advisor to the Nonprofit Resilience Lab, and on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Philanthropist, and is the lead author of an annual scan of trends and …

of disability and accessibility 19 · First Paralympic Games (Rome) 60 · Community living movement · Canada facilities, and veterans. Modeled after the Paralympic Games, with as well as amateur sport and recreation more common to see wheelchair fencing. The Paralympic Games have grown advanced modifications in the context increase opportunities and summer sports. The Paralympic Games, governed by and invite the full participation


The Geneva Association · 27 February 2024 English

Climate change and health

pollutants during the 2008 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing resulted in a reduction in respiratory Before, During, and After the 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Frontiers in Environmental Science 9: 624180


UN: The United Nations · 26 February 2024 English

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Committee to and participate in the International Paralympic Games. C. Specific obligations (arts. 31–33)


UN: The United Nations · 8 February 2024 English

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the country, such as the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, children and adolescents are more vulnerable


AP4D: The Asia-Pacific Development, Diplomacy & Defence Dialogue · 31 January 2024

The language can be therefore understood as a call to action to the bureaucracy, private enterprise Minister for International Development and the Pacific and civil society to rise to the …

there will Brisbane 2032 Olympic Summer and Paralympic Games neighbourhood content for Australians. This Brisbane hosting the 2032 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games will be opportunity to put Australia’s Sports


Stockland · 14 January 2024 English

Media Release 15 January 2024 C’mon! New mural of Lleyton Hewitt a hit with the Stockland Grandview community Link to images and videos Stockland has launched a 22-metre-long mural of …

which are qualifying events for the Paris 2024 Paralympic games. Stockland Grandview is in Truganina, just


IDOS: German Institute of Development and Sustainability · 8 January 2024

Brazil seeks a global leadership that is compatible with its national identity. Its “pragmatism” is evident both in its multilateral efforts and its approach towards sustainability, particularly in the greening …

das Cidades. (2013). The 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Brazil’s soft power. Contemporary Social


UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation · 2024 English

efforts to make the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games the first event to reach full parity regarding the framework of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (f) Coordinate social media campaigns to


UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation · 2024 English

Olympic Truce in view of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris 2024: A message of peace and cooperation


EU: European Union · 18 December 2023 English

The European Green Deal sets a bold and necessary path towards carbon neutrality by 2050, a goal that demands collective action from every sector of society. Sport is no exception. …

international events: A case of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. In B. P. McCullough & T. B. Kellison (Eds Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. 90 RLWC 2021 Sustainability strategy: regeneration projects linked to Olympic and Paralympic games here : https://www.apur.org/fr/nos-trav


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