2.1 Olympics, Paralympics and Special Olympics
2.2 Olympic Symbols, ideals, Objectives and Value of Olympism
2.3 International Olympic Committee
2.4 Indian Olympic Association
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, 2.1. Olympic, Paralympic and Special Olympics
Olympics
History Reveals that Ancient olympics were held in the honour of god zues, at city
of olympic around 776 BC as the part of Religious festivals. Representative of whole
Greek used to gather at dympia and exhibit their unity during ancient olympic gemes.
The revival work of the games wad undertaken by Barron Piere Decubation who is
also know as father of olympics. Que to their hard efforts the just modern olympic
Games held in 1896 at Athens Greece and Since then these game are held every four
years. The Nest olympics are scheduled for 2020 at Tokyo, JAPAN.
Paraolympics
The wore paraolympics is compositions of two words para and olympics. The word
‘Para’ has been derived from preposition of Greek which means beside or along side
which means that the paraolympics are the parallel games to the olympics and illustrate
how the two movements assist side by side. These events are held for the person
with range of disabilities, including musde impaired, impaired range of movements,
limb deficiency, Leg length differences, short stature, hypertonia vision impalement.
This is similar to Olympic game for disabled sports person in 1960 first time it was
organized in Rome. The head quarter of international para Olympic is situated at
Born, Gernmany. The international para Olympic is responsible for organizing
summer and winter Olympic games. At present it comprises of 176 National Para
Olympic Committees.
Special Olympics
Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organisation for children and adults
with intellectual disabilities and physical disabilities providing year round training
and competitions to 5 million athletes and unified sports partons in 172 counties.
Special olympics competition are held every day all around the world in clouding
local, national and regional competitions, adding upto more than 1 Lakhs events a
year. like International paraolympic committee the special olympic Organisation is
sroognised by IOC called International special oympic committee. The major special
olympic world Games is a major went put on by the special olympics. These games
alternate between summer and winter games, in two year cycles recurring every for
the year. First special olympics held on July 20, 1968 at Chicago.
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