Paralympiad

English 2021 September 5 Etymology en Paralympic Olympiad, or from en para prefix referring to disability sport Olympiad. Pronunciation en /ˌpæɹəˈlɪmpiæd/ /-əd/ RP en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Paralympiad.wav Southern England en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Paralympiad2.wav Southern England en /ˌpæɹəˈlɪmpiˌæd/ /-əd/ /ˌpɛ-/ GA en Pa ra lym pi ad Noun en sports An occurrence of the Paralympic Games. en Paralympic Games Paralympics en Wheelchair Olympics The Edmonton Journal Edmonton, Alta. The Southam Company 9 November 1954 4 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83251411/paralympiad/ 1 0839-296X 1057194073 Teams from many nations as far apart as Canada, Portugal and Pakistan, were entered in the sports festival held at Stoke Mandeville, England, this summer. Perhaps at this time, when the bloody wars of this century are in the forefront of our minds, the most significant aspect of the Paralympiad is the spirit of comradely sportsmanship which was shared by all entrants. Used to refer to the Stoke Mandeville Games (now the IWAS World Games) which were the precursor of the Paralympic Games, the latter first held in 1960. on en Tom Hopkins Sportraitures: The ‘Paralympiad’ William H. Ewing w:Honolulu Star-Bulletin Honolulu, Hi. Porter Dickinson 31 October 1964 53 305 19 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83250634/paralympiad/ 1–2 2326-1137 8807359 Another group of athletes, less fortunate than the Olympians, move into Tokyo next week. They are the Paralympic squads representing 23 nations who will compete in an international sports meet that was founded in 1948. Sixty-five of the athletes, whose eligibility requires they be confined to wheel chairs, will represent the United States, seeking its third straight "Paralympiad" crown. The United States paralymics are a hand-selected group. They gained their berths in the Paralympiad by virtue of outstanding performances in the eighth annual United States Wheelchair Games held in June at Bulova Park, New York. en George Conn Basketball Fireworks … Wheelchair Style Ron Bourgea American Rehabilitation Washington, D.C. Rehabilitation Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare January–February 1976 1 3 16–17 https://books.google.com/books?id=tTzwibSR5yMC&pg=PA17 22532286 In 1976, following the regular Olympics, Montreal will host the Paralympics. There, for the 5th Paralympiad, the nations of six continents will assemble for competition, including basketball. en Federal Transit Administration [Formula Grants (including Transfer of Funds)] An Act Making Appropriations for the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 1995, and for Other Purposes Public Law 103-331, 103d Congress; House Resolution 4556 [Washington, D.C. United States Government Printing Office] 30 September 1994 title I 108 Stat. 2482 https://books.google.com/books?id=lz_r7EfsuVAC&pg=PA2482 31513331 That of the funds provided under this head, $16,000,000 shall be available for grants for the costs of planning, delivery and temporary use of transit vehicles for special transportation needs of the XXVth Summer Olympiad and the Xth Paralympiad for the Disabled, to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, of which $5,600,000 shall be available for the Paralympic Games: en Gill Clarke; Monica Humberstone Managing a Women’s Sport Organisation: Interpreting Biographies Gill Clarke; Barbara Humberstone Researching Women and Sport Basingstoke, Hampshire; London Macmillan Press 1997 8 https://books.google.com/books?id=dSO_DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA8 10.1007/978-1-349-25317-3 978-0-333-64231-3 As a contestant in the swimming events in the 1976 and 1980 Paralympiad she [Monica Vaughan] gained five and four gold medals respectively for Britain. en Cynthia Holzschuher The Paralympic Games Evan D. Forbes The Olympic Dream: Primary United States Olympic Committee’s Curriculum Guide to the Olympic Games; Teacher Created Resources TCR 2200 Torrance, Calif. Griffin Publishing Group 2000 2005 77 https://books.google.com/books?id=RsUXoz41YeMC&pg=PA77 978-1-58000-014-7 In September 1992, again following the Olympic Games, Barcelona welcomed 3044 athletes to the IX Paralympiad. en w:Gerard Goggin; Christopher Newell Getting the Picture on Disability: Digital Broadcasting Futures Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in New Media Critical Media Studies Lanham, Md. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2003 part III (New Mediations of Disability) 91 https://books.google.com/books?id=-tIkAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA91 978-0-7425-1843-8 Apart from the opening and closing ceremonies, the rest of the Paralympiad was obviously not deemed of sufficient entertainment or information value, prior to the event, to be accorded the same "live" event television coverage as its Olympic counterpart. en Anthony J. Bush From Melksham to Rio: A Coach’s 20-year Journey in Para-swimming Geoffrey Z. Kohe; Derek M. Peters High Performance Disability Sport Coaching Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y. w:Routledge 2017 165 https://books.google.com/books?id=gEUlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA165 978-1-138-86036-0 Tracing the genealogy of para-swimming reveals that since its inclusion as one of eight sports at the first official Paralympiad in Rome 1960, through to and beyond the first summer Paralympic Games in Toronto 1976, it has undeniably become one of the biggest sports at the Paralympic Games in terms of both the numbers of competitors and number of events. en P. David Howe; Shane Kerr Observing Legacy: Ethnographic Moments in and around the London 2012 Paralympic Games Phil Cohen; Paul Watt London 2012 and the Post-Olympics City: A Hollow Legacy? London w:Palgrave Macmillan 2017 340 https://books.google.com/books?id=uMI2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA340 10.1057/978-1-137-48947-0 978-1-137-48946-3 At London 2012 we expected the spotlight to be much more intense since with every passing Paralympiad there has been an increased media presence and we were not disappointed. Events such as the World Cup and coverage of the London Marathon wheelchair race (which in 2013 hosted the International Paralympic Committee [IPC] Marathon World Cup) keep the British public mindful of Paralympic sport between Paralympiads. en Julie Cornaton; Angela Schweizer; Sylvain Ferez; Nicolas Bancel The Divisive Origins of Sports for Physically Disabled People in Switzerland (1956–1968) https://books.google.com/books?id=U97sDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT42 Nicolas Bancel; Julie Cornaton; Anne Marcellini Being Disabled, Becoming a Champion Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y. w:Routledge 2019 978-0-367-18653-1 Switzerland took part in all the Paralympiads since 1960 and at the time of the 1984 Games at Stoke Mandeville, wheelchair racers had already won 43 medals (18 gold medals). en sports rare A period of four years between occurrences of the Paralympic Games. en Liam McCann The Paralympic Games: Rome 1960 – Athens 2004 The Olympics: Facts, Figures & Fun London Facts, Figures & Fun, AAPPL Artists’ and Photographers’ Press 2006 94 https://books.google.com/books?id=zr99d6AGPPIC&pg=PA94 978-1-904332-40-4 The Games of the VI Paralympiad attracted over a million spectators. en David A. Grieg Splitting Hairs: The Struggle between the Canadian Federal Government and the Organizing Committee of the 1976 Torontolympiad concerning South African Participation Gerald P. Schaus; Stephen R. Wenn Onward to the Olympics: Historical Perspectives on the Olympic Games Publications of the Canadian Institute in Greece no. 5 Waterloo, Ont. w:Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2007 part II (The Modern Olympics) 298 https://books.google.com/books?id=lNvfAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA298 978-0-88920-505-5 With the Games of the Fifth Paralympiad awarded to Canada, organizers had their sights on hosting the most inclusive and largest Games ever. en Tom Taylor Paralympics a Source of Inspiration, Advanced Technology and (Yes) Doping https://web.archive.org/web/20201106014106/https://www.si.com/olympics/2016/09/07/paralympics-rio-2016-inspiration-technology-doping 6 November 2020 w:Sports Illustrated New York, N.Y. w:Meredith Corporation 12 April 2018 0038-822X 1054392172 [Robert] Riener hopes, in 2020, to hold the Games of the II Cybathlon in Tokyo after the Games of the XVI Paralympiad. Who knows, by 2028 or '32, perhaps there will be only one Games, for competitors of all abilities—or disabilities? en by extension Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a competition or series of competitions for disabled participants involving sports or other activities. en G. Andrew Fleming The Paralympian—Another Kind of Hero William Peters U.S. Society & Values: Electronic Journals of the U.S. Information Agency: America’s Olympic Summer: Reflecting U.S. Values Washington, D.C. w:United States Information Agency June 1996 1 5 23 https://books.google.com/books?id=udNQ6kXr3bcC&pg=PA23 1 47122772 Affiliated programs [to the Third Paralympic Congress] also will include an International Trade and Economic Initiative for international government and business leaders; an Abilities Expo, featuring exhibits of assistive technology and services; and the Cultural Paralympiad, a celebration of the work of internationally acclaimed disabled artists. en Selina Khoo New Direction: Disability Sport in Malaysia https://books.google.com/books?id=KhvaAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT237 Jill M. Le Clair Disability in the Global Sport Arena: A Sporting Chance Sport in the Global Society: Contemporary Perspectives Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y. w:Routledge 2012 978-0-415-48851-8 The Malaysian Paralympiad, a national multisport and multidisability sport competition, has been organized biennially in Malaysia since 1982, and has grown steadily in terms of the variety of sports and number of participants, with the aim of training coaches and developing technical skills. Despite such growth, the Malaysian Paralympiad has helped to develop sport to only a limited degree given that there is no year-long training, rather most of the training for the athletes is held prior to competition; also there are hardly any regular sports activities and competitions. en Anthony Brooks Accessibility: Definition, Labeling, and CVAA Impact Anthony Lewis Brooks; Sheryl Brahnam; Bill Kapralos; Lakhmi C. Jain Recent Advances in Technologies for Inclusive Well-being: From Worn to Off-body Sensing, Virtual Worlds, and Games for Serious Applications Intelligent Systems Reference Library 119 Cham, Switzerland w:Springer Nature 2017 part V (Ethics and Accessibility), section 14.2.2 (Accessibility Exemplified: The First Cultural Paralympiad) 305 https://books.google.com/books?id=4lonDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA305 10.1007/978-3-319-49879-9 978-3-319-49877-5 1868-4394 This contribution, authored in 2016, marks two decades since the author's research and body of mature work was presented as a performance art production under the umbrella of the first cultural event that supplemented the Paralympics—The Cultural Paralympiad—when the Olympics were hosted in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The author's SoundScapes event for the first Paralympiad was hosted at the Rialto Center for the Arts, an 833-seat performing-arts venue in downtown Atlanta, owned and operate by Georgia State University. Usage notes Sense 2 (“period of four years between occurrences of the Paralympic Games”) is chiefly used when an occurrence of the Paralympic Games is referred to formally as, for example, “the Games of the XVI Paralympiad”. Coordinate terms en Asiad en Olympiad en Spartakiad Related terms en para-athlete en Paralympic, en paralympic en Paralympic Games en Paralympian en parasport, en para-sport Translations occurrence of the Paralympic Games Paralympic Games Italian: it paraolimpiade f Polish: pl paraolimpiada f Russian: ru Паралимпиа́да f, ru Параолимпиа́да f period of four years between occurrences of the Paralympic Games Polish: pl paraolimpiada f competition or series of competitions for disabled participants involving sports or other activities Polish: pl paraolimpiada f Russian: ru параолимпиа́да f See also en -iad Further reading Paralympic Games en terms suffixed with -iad en Disability Periodic occurrences