Paris 2024

Comment ne pas participer à cet évènement sportif majeur ?

Rising Phoenix ( on the left)

The Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 marked the great beginning of the Paralympic Games. In 1948, on the sidelines of the Olympic Games, in London, a competition was organized thanks to the neurosurgeon Ludwig Guttmann in which 16 veterans in wheelchairs took part. The tests? Archery and netball. Twelve years later, in Rome, the International Olympic Committee agreed to hold a competition for 400 athletes, each suffering from a disability. A competition then called "the IX International Games of Stoke Mandeville" in reference to the International Games of Stoke Mandeville in which, in 1952, several veterans had participated.

2012 (on black paper)

Women's boxing entered the program at the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London in 2012. Women participated for the first time in the Games in 1900, in Paris. Indeed, drawing inspiration from the Olympic Games of Antiquity, Pierre de Coubertin judged that women have no place in these competitions. The organizers had therefore refused the participation of women in the sporting competitions of the first edition, in 1896. The main events of the Olympic Games, in athletics, would see their first participants in 1928 in Amsterdam (dame means ladies in french ;).