Disability Olympics: What is Paralympic?

The 2018 Disabled Olympics continues to take place in PyeongChang, South Korea after the Winter Olympics. Winter PyeongChang Paralympic Games 2018 is considered the biggest winter Olympics for people with disabilities in history.

What is the Olympic Games?

Paralympic Games are also called Paralympic Games (English: Paralympic Games) is an important international sporting event.

The Paralympic Olympics took place in Sochi, Russia in 2014.

The Paralympic Games are where athletes with physical disabilities compete, including athletes with disabilities, limbs, blindness, and cerebral palsy. Two Summer and Winter Paralympic Olympics events are organized according to their respective Olympic Games. All competitions in the Paralympic Games are regulated by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

The Paralympic Games started a small collection of British veterans in World War II in 1948 and today has become one of the largest international sporting events of the 21st century. participating in the Paralympic Games struggles for equal treatment as normal athletes at the Olympic Games, but there is still a big gap in funding for Olympic and Paralympic athletes. There are also sports such as running, jumping and throwing disciplines that can prevent Paralympic athletes from competing equally with normal athletes, even though there have been Paralympic athletes in attendance. Olympic Games.

Paralympic Games for athletes with physical disabilities and held in parallel with the Olympic Games. The International Olympic Council (IOC) recognizes the Special Olympics World Games for athletes with intellectual disabilities and the Deaflympic Olympics for hearing impaired athletes.

The current official explanation for the name "Paralympic" is that it derives from the Greek preposition παρά (Latin transliteration: pará, next to, next to) and therefore refers to a contest held in parallel with the Olympic Games.

For the first time, the term "Paralympic" was officially put into use at the 1988 Summer Paralympic Games held in Seoul.

Paralympic PyeongChang 2018

Paralympic Pyeong Organizing Committee 2018 said that as of February 24, 570 athletes from 49 countries around the world have registered to compete in the Olympic Games scheduled to take place from 9-18 March. much higher than 547 athletes from 45 countries at Paralympic Sochi 2014.

Paralympics Olympics are held in parallel with the Olympic Games.

In particular, the US delegation had the largest number of registrations with 68 athletes, followed by Canada with 52 athletes and Japan with 38 athletes. Meanwhile, Russia has registered 38 athletes to compete in four disciplines.

However, the Russian Paralympic team will play under the neutral flag because of the doping scandal of Russian sports. In particular, this is the first Paralympic period where the Korean delegation has up to 36 athletes attending, competing in all 6 competitions.

With a special invitation from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Korean delegation will also send two athletes to compete in the team skiing competition with the team with Korean athletes.

This is also the event that marked the first time that the Korean, Georgian and Tajikistan athletes' teams participated. Paralympic PyeongChang 2018 is predicted to be the Olympics with the most gold medals in history with 80 gold medals to be awarded, more than 8 medals compared to the previous Olympics in Sochi 2014.

The opening and closing ceremony of Paralympic PyeongChang 2018 takes place at the PyeongChang Olympic Stadium, which took place the opening and closing ceremony of PyeongChang Olympic Games 2018. PyeongChang is also the venue for all the sports on the snow while Alpine skiing will take place in Jeongseon, 215km east of Seoul, and ice sports will take place in Gangneung City in Gangwon Province.