Plays paralympic of summer of 2000

|- | align=" center" colspan=2 bgcolor=" #CCCCCC" | |----- | participating Nations || bgcolor=#EEEEEE|127 |----- | participating Athletes ||bgcolor=#EEEEEE| 3843 (2867 men, 979 women) |----- | Tests || bgcolor=#EEEEEE|551, in 20 sports |----- | Opening || bgcolor=#EEEEEE| October 18th 2000 |----- | Fence || bgcolor=#EEEEEE| October 29th 2000 |----- | Grand opening by | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| William Deane |----- | Olympic Oath | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| ? |----- | Olympic flame | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| Wild Louise |----- | Olympic Mascot | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| Lizzie, the lizard |}

The paralympic plays of summer 2000 , XIe Plays paralympic of summer, were held with Sydney from October 18th to 29th 2000.

Practiced sports

18 sports gave place to tests:

Athletics
Boccia (sport resembling the balls, practiced with leather balls by motor disabilities)
Basketball in wheel chair
Cycling
Horsemanship
Fencing in wheel chair
Football to 7 (practiced by handicapped athletes engine)
Goal-ball (sport of balloon practiced by athletes partially-sighted persons or blind men with a sound balloon)
Haltérophilie
Judo (practiced by athletes partially-sighted persons or blind men)
Swimming
Rugby in wheel chair
Tennis in wheel chair
Table tennis
Shooting with the arc
sporting Shooting
Veil
sitted Volley ball (practiced by handicapped athletes engine)

Striking facts

Sydney accommodated 3843 athletes coming from 123 countries. The accepted handicaps were the following: traumatisms of the spinal-cord, problems visual, amputation, cerebral paralysis, mental handicaps.

the Rugby in wheel chair and the veil became official sports after having been of the sports of demonstration to Atlanta, in 1996.

300 world records and records paralympic were beaten with Sydney.

the team of intellectual Spain of basketball defective has to return its gold medal after Spanish the Paralympique Committee had realized that 10 of the 12 players of the team did not have any mental handicap. This scandal led other than the mentally handicapped persons to the paralympic Jeux of Athens in 2004. The International committee paralympic considered that it was too difficult to determine the level of handicap of the intellectual defective athletes.

Table of the medals

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