Cycling

Cycling by PEREIRA Prescilia

The paralympics Games to gether must handicaped from all over the world for handicap competitions. Participants include phisically or visually impaired athletes (amputees, blind, motor, cerebral, wheelchair, or other physical disabilities) as weel as athletes with intellectual disabilities.

Among everything the paralympic sports is the cycling.The cycling must respects rules established that it adapts face to face handicap. The helmet is compulsory, its color depends on the category of the athlete.

The persons with visual impairment roll on physical tandem and the handicapped persons on little modified bikes. The bikes of handbike are intended for the people in wheelchair: he possess three wheels and are towed by the front wheel by means of a système using the energy of arms.

The prototypes of svélocimanes date the beginning of the 20th century, the bike for physically handicapped persons date 1960, the tandem practised by the persons with visual impairment of the 1970s and finally the handbike for the people in wheelchair of the 1990s.Ludwig Guttmann was the one who invented the Paralympic Games. He had the idea to organize in 1849s the first world Games of wheelchairs and amputees

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