The 2016 Paralympic Games begin today and Google believes that an excellent reason for a doodle. That sport summer is far from over!
The Paralymische Games – perhaps better known as the Paralympics – know as the modern Olympics have enjoyed for quite a long tradition. To be precise, the first version held in 1948, but that event was comparable in any way with the current large and professional design. That first Paralympics were a modest sporting event which British veterans took part in the Second World War. Mainly those who arrived klwaren in wheelchairs, so it was also known in the beginning as the wheelchair games. In 1952 this was even an international sports festival when also participated Dutch veterans.
In 1960, in Rome, the first truly large-scale Paralympics place in the same year as the Olympic Games. From 1988, the Paralympics were linked to the Summer Games, held in the same location and using the same facilities. In 1976, the first Winterparalympics were; from 1994, which ran along with the rhythm of the Winter Games. Anno 2016 promises once again to be a great spectacle which joins in a big Dutch delegation. More information including a schedule, you can find out here
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