2. Created By:
Fadhila Iswi
Deandra
19 Junior High School Jakarta

3. What’s Paralympic?
Paralympic games are an international multi-
sport event where the athletes are people with a
physical disability.
The explanation for the name "Paralympic" is
that it derives from the Greek preposition
παρά, pará ("beside" or "alongside”) and thus refers
to a competition held in parallel with the Olympic
Games.
The categories of that allowed to compete are
amputee, Cerebral Palsy, intellectual disability,
wheelchair, visually impaired, and others (except:
warfism, multiple sclerosis and congenital
deformities)

4. History
The first organized athletic event for disabled
athletes that coincided with the Olympic Games
took place on the day of the opening of the 1948
Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom.
Dr. Ludwig Guttmann of Stoke Mandeville
Hospital hosted a sports competition for
British World War II veteran patients with spinal
cord injuries. The first games were called
the 1948 International Wheelchair Games, and
were intended to coincide with the 1948 Olympics.
These early competitions, also known as the
Stoke Mandeville Games, have been described as

5. Mascots Of Paralympic 2012
Mandeville
The name Mandeville, given after a village
in Buckinghamshire where a forerunner to
the Paralympic Games were first
held. There are two stories have been
created about the mascots: Out Of A
Rainbow, the story of how Wenlock
(Olympic Games mascots) and Mandeville
came to be, and Adventures On A
Rainbow, which features the children from
Out Of A Rainbow meeting the mascots and
trying out many different Olympic and

6. Logo Of Paralympic 2012

7. Sports Of Paralympic
Games
Power Volley Wheelch Shootin Wheelch
Lifting Ball air g air
Rugby Fencing

8. Sports Of Paralympic
Games
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Tennis
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9. Sports Of Paralympic
Games
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(7-a- (5-a-
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10. Sports Of Paralympic
Games
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Tennis
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11. Participating Nations
There Are:
Canada New Zealand
Fiji Poland
Australia Samoa
France Solomon Islands
Germany Sweden
Great Britain Tonga
Italy Turkey
Lithuania United States
Netherlands Vanuatu
It’s such a pity that Indonesia isn’t compete in
this major event. Maybe next time we’ll try!
Hope so! xx

12. Values Of Paralympic
Friendship: Enter a massive International
event like this will increase our friend all
around the world. It’s good to have many
friends
Courage: with their disabilities, it take a lot
of nerve to show up without feeling
embarrassed and do normal people things.
Especially, the sports.
Determination: Determination is a drive to
prove oneself against all odds. The
participants must have it, or else, they all will

13. “All sports for all people.”
- Pierre de Coubertin

14. Terima Kasih!
(Thank You!)