Sponsored by the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee, it is a large-scale comprehensive World Games for the Disabled. After the Summer Olympic Games, it will be held every four years, and by 2020, 16 games have been held.

brief introduction

China first participated in the 7th Paralympic Games held in new york, USA from June 1984, and then participated in the Paralympics in 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000. * * * These five Paralympic Games sent 2 15 athletes, * * * won 80 gold medals, 72 silver medals and 52 bronze medals, 59 people broke 75 world records and 25 people broke Paralympic Games records.

Compared with western countries, sports for the disabled in China started late and has a weak foundation. 1984 China's reform and opening up has just started. Sports, like other undertakings, is in a state of great waste.

In June this year, disabled sports, like healthy sports, returned to the international stage and participated in the Olympic and Paralympic Games that year. China only sent 24 disabled athletes to participate in the 7th International Summer Paralympics held in Long Island, new york, USA. Two blind girls, Ping Yali and Zhao, bravely struggled with powerful athletes from all over the world and won the women's long jump gold medal in and respectively.

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