The Paralympics are the second-largest sports competition in the world. It host 1,100 athletes.  It includes athletes with spinal cord injuries. amputated limbs. blindness or other visual impairments, cerebral palsy, mental handicaps, and various other disabilities, The old motto is “mind, body, spirit”and the new motto is “spirit in motion.”  The sports in the Paralympics are Archery, Athletics (Track and Field), Wheelchair Basketball, Cycling Road, Cycling Track, Canoe Sprint, Equestrian, Wheelchair Fencing, Soccer 5-a-side, Soccer 7-a-side, Judo, Sailing, Shooting, Swimming, Table Tennis, Wheelchair Tennis, Triathlon, Volleyball, and Rowing. The story of the Paralympics begins with Dr. Ludwig Guttman of Stoke Mandeville Hospital in England. In 1944, he began using sports as a form of recreation and physical therapy for veterans of World War II with spinal cord injuries. In 1948, on the day that the Olympic Summer Games opened in London he organised the Stoke Mandeville Games, a competition for wheelchair athletes. This became an annual event,

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