This year is the Tokyo 2021 Paralympic games, there will be many contestants, who will make it to the Paralympics. There will be many sports, Archery, athletics, boccia, cycling ( road and track), Equestrian, football 5-a side, goal ball, judo, para canoe, para triathlon, power lifting, rowing, shooting, sitting volleyball, swimming, table tennis, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair fencing, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair tennis. There were 2 new sports added to the Paralympics this year, they were: Taekwondo and Badminton. Swimmer Sophie pascoe is NZ`s most decorated paralympian of all time, swimmer Sophie got her leg run over by a lawn mower her dad was driving, she was very young at this point. NZ`s Paralympic team have decided that our medal goal is 22. The very first proper Paralympic games was in Rome 1960, it wasn't until after world war ll that the Paralympics started, German-British neurologist Dr. Ludwig Guttman opened a spinal injuries centre at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital in 1944 at the request of the British government. The activities in the Paralympics grew, as they added more and more.
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