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The RED RING HOORN – HOLLAND 7-11 november 2005

The RED RING HOORN – HOLLAND 7-11 november 2005. 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

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The RED RING HOORN – HOLLAND 7-11 november 2005

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  1. The RED RINGHOORN – HOLLAND7-11 november 2005

  2. 1948 England: Ludwing Guttmann organized a sports competition for the veterans of the World WarII 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

  3. There are three categories for disabled athletes: STANDING (amputees), SITTING (paraplegics and amputees from both legs) and SIGHTLESS (from partially-sighted to completely blind).

  4. 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.

  5. Summer Sports • Archery • Athletics • Boccia • Bowls • Cycling • Equestrian • Football 5 or 7 • Goalball • Judo • Powerlifting

  6. Summer Sports • Sailing • Shooting • Swimming • Table Tennis • Volleyball • Wheelchair basketball • Wheelchair Dance sport • Wheelchair fencing • Wheelchair rugby • Wheelchair tennis

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. Winter Sports • Alpine Skiing • Ice Sledge Hockey • Nordic Skiing • Wheelchair curling

  10. 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.

  11. 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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