XI Paralympic Winter Games презентация

The Paralympic Games-
is a major international multi-sport event, involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power (e.g. paraplegia and quadriplegia, muscular dystrophy, post-polio syndrome, spina bifida), impaired passive range of movement, limb deficiency (e.g. amputation or dysmelia), leg length difference, short stature, hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis, vision impairment and intellectual impairment. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, South Korea, are held almost immediately following the respective Olympic Games. All Paralympic Games are governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

The Paralympic Winter Games held in2014 in Sochi

Sports and venue
Complex Biathlon, competition in cross country skiing and biathlon "Laura"
Skiing Ski resort "Rosa Khutor"

Wheelchair curling Kёrlingovy center " Ice Cube"
Cross-country skiing competitions for complex cross-country skiing and biathlon "Laura"
Sledge hockey Ice Arena " puck "

Paralympic Winter Games Mascots
Ray and Snowflake become a mascots

The Paralympic Winter Games medals

Kinds of sports

Medal standings

The results of the winter Paralympic Games in the opinion of the professionals, participants, spectator
Winter Paralympic Games in Sochi have broken records of all previous Paralympics on snow and ice kinds of competitions in the number of participants and intensity of wrestling, as well as in terms of media coverage and sell tickets.
547 athletes from 45 countries competing in five sports. More than 2,400 representatives of the media outlets from around the world arrived in Sochi to illuminate Events Winter Paralympics 2014 The competition has sold more than 300,000 tickets, which is a new record for the Winter Paralympics.
President of the International Paralympic Committee, Sir Philip Craven called the Paralympic Winter Games in 2014 the most successful in the history of