About 4,400 athletes from nearly 160 countries and regions are expected to compete at the 16th Summer Paralympics, which opens on August 24.Unlike the Olympics, the Paralympics don't have much fanfare. However,
people need to know about 168 sports for people with disabilities, so here's some information you might find helpful.Paralympic history Sport for athletes with disabilities has been around for over 100 years,
with the first sports club for the deaf founded in 1888 in Berlin. germany after World War II This is because many veterans and civilians who have been injured during the war need help.
The sport is therefore widely introduced.When the London Olympics were held in 1948, Sir Ludwig Guttmann introduced the Stoke Mandeville Games for the first time for wheelchair athletes with spinal cord injuries