‘Biggest Paralympic Games Ever’ Ready & Raring To Go
Less than a week after the 27th Olympics Games closed in a blaze of glory at Olympic Stadium in Stratford here, preparations are revving up for the start of what is being called the “biggest Paralympic Games ever” set to start in just over a week’s time.
Jamaica is one of 160 countries set to send over 4,000 athletes to the Games that will run from August 29 to September 9.
It will be the 14th staging of the event that started in 1948 by Dr Ludwig Guttmann and the Stoke Mandeville Hospital in London, and was known as Stoke Mandeville Games, an event for British World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries to coincide with the opening ceremony of the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
