The 2012 Summer Paralympic Games will be the fourteenth Paralympics an`d will take place between 29 August and 9 September 2012. The Games will be held in London.

Summer Paralympic Games

Athletes with disabilities did compete in the Olympic Games prior to the advent of the Paralympics. The first athlete to do so was American gymnast George Eyser in 1904, he had one artificial leg. The first organized athletic event for disabled athletes that coincided with the Olympic Games took place on the day of the opening of the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. The first games were called the 1948 International Wheelchair Games. The Paralympic Games were designed to emphasize the participants' athletic achievements, not their disability.

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Curling

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Wheelchair rugbySailingRowing

Curling

Wheelchair curling is a sport for paraplegics. It is a sport that combines a lot of skill and it takes a ton of strategy to be a winner.Wheelchair curling is the only Paralympics sport that comprises teams made up of both men and women on the same team. The sport requires that the entrant must have a disability to the lower half of the body.

SAILING

Sailing for athletes with a disability began to develop as a competitive sport in the 1980s, just over 10 years before it joined the Paralympic programme. Mastery over ever-changing conditions on open water requires skill, tactics and nerve, all of which will be essential for competitors in the Paralympic Sailing events at London 2012.

Rowing

Although its history dates back centuries, Rowing only came of age as a competitive sport in the last 200 years. Interest began to increase after Oxford and Cambridge Universities began their rivalry on the Thames in 1829, a rivalry that continues today in the shape of the annual Boat Race. The sport made its Paralympic debut in Beijing – when Great Britain topped the medal table – and looks set to offer plenty of drama at London 2012.

Volleyball

Volleyball is open to athletes with a physical disability and is performed from a seated position. In sitting volleyball the court is smaller than the standard court and has a lower net. In the sitting games the only classification rule is that each team may have only one player who fits the minimum disability rule, which is that their disability prevents them from competing on equal terms with able-bodied athletes. The other players on the team must demonstrate a higher level of disability.

Wheelchair rugby

Athletes are classified on a points system similar to wheelchair basketball, with the most severely disabled athlete being graded at 0.5 points rising to 3.5 points. Each team has four players and is allowed a maximum of eight points on the court at any one time.

This presentation is not only about sport games, this presentation is

mainly about people who conquered the world, which was going to brake

them. They made something impossible, they are competing in unbelivably for us sports. Isn't it a

miracle? They inspire us to never give up and keep going...even there's no

hope...at all . So, good luck to everyone, l ife is getting better.. . just

believe

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