Where will the 2022 Paralympic Games be held?

The opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games was held at the National Stadium.

The Paralympic Games began on 1960. It is a large-scale comprehensive World Games for the Disabled sponsored by the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee. It is held every four years after the Summer Olympic Games, and it has been held in 2020 16. Since the Winter Paralympics was held in 1976, it has been held in 13 in 2022, with a total of nearly 4,000 athletes.

There are four events in the competition: alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, ice sledding and wheelchair sports dance, and each event includes several events. China participated in the Winter Paralympics for the first time in 2002. At that time, * * * sent four athletes to participate in alpine skiing and cross-country skiing, and won the sixth place.

Remarkable characteristics of paralympic games

At the Athens Paralympic Games, the China sports delegation has three remarkable features: the delegation consists of 287 people, including 200 athletes, which is 2.3 times that of the athletes sent by the Sydney Paralympic Games. We will participate in track and field, swimming, table tennis, shooting, weightlifting, judo for the blind, cycling, archery, wheelchair fencing, wheelchair tennis, sitting volleyball and other 1 1 events and 284 events.

There are five more sports than last year, and there are 125 more sports. The athletes who participated in the Paralympic Games for the first time were 16 1 person, accounting for 80.5% of the total number of athletes. These young athletes are the backbone of China's participation in the 2008 Paralympic Games. China participated in the 1984 Paralympic Games for the first time, with 24 athletes.

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