Firstly, the name was changed before the paralympics games were called "the games world of wheelchairs and amputees".
The first Paralympic Games were held in Rome in 1960. The event brings together 400 athletes from 23 different countries. For the first season, only wheelchair athletes are invited to participate in the competition. At this time, only eight sports are on the program: athletics, basketball chair, swimming, wheelchair fencing, billiards, table tennis, shooting, archery and dartchery (a mixture of darts and archery).
From these beginnings, the Paralympics have grown remarkably. Paralympic Games today include six major categories of athletes: those with visual impairments, people with physical disabilities, amputee athletes, people with cerebral palsy, people with spinal cord injury, and The Others - Athletes with a Disability physics not included in the above categories (eg people with muscular dystrophy).
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