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Major disability sporting events include:

'''Paralympic Games'''

A multi-sport event for athletes with physical, mental and sensorial disabilities. This includes mobility disabilities, amputees, visual disabilities and those with cerebral palsy. The Paralympic Games are held every four years, following the Olympic Games, and are governed by the International Paralympic Committee.

'''Deaflympics'''

The Summer and Winter Deaflympics are among the world's fastest growing sports events.

'''Special Olympics'''

The global Special Olympics movement got its start on 20 July 1968, when the First International Special Olympics Games were held at Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois, USA. But the concept of Special Olympics was born much earlier, when Eunice Kennedy Shriver started a day camp for people with intellectual disabilities at her home in 1962.

'''Disability Commonwealth Games'''

For the first time in the Games history a number of Para-Sports were included in a fully inclusive Sports Program in Manchester 2002 when 20 countries sent both male and female elite athletes with a disability to compete in 10 events across 5 different Para-Sports; Athletics, Lawn Bowls, Swimming, Table Tennis and Weightlifting. The Commonwealth has always said it wanted to play a lead role in social issues.

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 '''Paralympic Games'''
-A multi-sport event for athletes with physical, mental and sensorial disabilities. This includes mobility disabilities, amputees, visual disabilities and those with cerebral palsy. The Paralympic Games are held every four years, following the Olympic Games, and are governed by the International Paralympic Committee.The IPC has established six disability categories. Athletes with one of these physical disabilities are able to compete in the Paralympics.These apply to both Summer and Winter Paralympics.
+A multi-sport event for athletes with physical, mental and sensorial disabilities. This includes mobility disabilities, amputees, visual disabilities and those with cerebral palsy. The Paralympic Games are held every four years, following the Olympic Games, and are governed by the International Paralympic Committee.The IPC has established six disability categories. Athletes with one of these physical disabilities are able to compete in the Paralympics.These apply to both Summer and Winter Paralympics.[[File:Paralympics2.jpg|right]]
 ''Amputee:'' Athletes with a partial or total loss of at least one limb.
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 '''Deaflympics'''
 The Summer and Winter Deaflympics are among the world's fastest growing sports events.The Deaflympics are held every 4 years.To qualify for the games, athletes must have a hearing loss of at least 55 db in their "better ear". Hearing aids, cochlear implants and the like are not allowed to be used in competition, to place all athletes on the same level.
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 '''Disability Commonwealth Games'''
-For the first time in the Games history a number of Para-Sports were included in a fully inclusive Sports Program in Manchester 2002 when 20 countries sent both male and female elite athletes with a disability to compete in 10 events across 5 different Para-Sports; Athletics, Lawn Bowls, Swimming, Table Tennis and Weightlifting. The Commonwealth has always said it wanted to play a lead role in social issues.
+For the first time in the Games history a number of Para-Sports were included in a fully inclusive Sports Program in Manchester 2002 when 20 countries sent both male and female elite athletes with a disability to compete in 10 events across 5 different Para-Sports; Athletics, Lawn Bowls, Swimming, Table Tennis and Weightlifting. The Commonwealth has always said it wanted to play a lead role in social issues.[[File:Paralympics.jpg]]