Read the following paragraph and see how notes have been made on it. .The Rome Paralympic Games was a tremendous step in sports for athletes with a physical impairment. The founder of the Paralympics movement, Sir Ludwig Guttmann, and the director of the spinal centre in Rome, Antonia Maglio, started preparations for the games two years ago. It would be called the 9th Annual International Stoke Mandeville Games.
Now regarded as the Rome Paralympic Games, the competition took place for six days following the closing ceremony of the XVII Olympic Games and was supported by the Italian Olympic Committee and the Italian Institute for Disabled Workers. . A total of eight different sports events debuted at the first-ever paralympic Games, all of which were considered beneficial and suitable for athletes with spinal cord injuries: archery, IPC athletics, dart, snooker, IPC swimming, table tennis, wheelchair-basketball and wheelchair fencing. .
The opening ceremony on September garnered a crowd of spectators, which greeted the wheelchair athletes during their colourful entry into Acqua Acetosa stadium. The Italian Minister for Public Health at the time, officially declared the games open to the world. In the debut of the Paralympic games on the world stage, the host nation Italy finished atop the medal standings, as Great Britain, Germany, Austria and the USA rounded out the top five with stellar performances. .The closing ceremony on 25th September was held in the Palazetto Dello in the Olympic village in the presence of Sir Guttmann, the patron of the Games.
Sir Guttmann summed up the Games saying: “The vast majority of competitors and escorts have fully understood the meaning of the Rome Games as a new pattern of reintegration of the paralysed into society, as well as the whole of sport.” Notes: The Paralympics . Origin of Paralympic games a. sports for the phy. impaired b.
Founder i.Sir Ludwig Guttman c. first Paralympic d. conducted for days e. supp.d by i.Italian Olym.
Committee &Italian Inst. for Disabled Workers . Sports a. events i.
suitable for athletes with spinal inj.s . Opening ceremony a. 18th Sept. b.
spectators c. colourful entry of wheelchair athletes . Closing ceremony a. 25th Sept.
b. host Italy finished atop c. Sir Guttman summed up i. reintegration of paralyzed into soc.
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