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What about Mexico?

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IndexParalympic Games ¡The Inauguration!

Let the Paralympic Games Begins!!!

Believe in yourself

What about Mexico?

“Looking up to this special heroes”

PUBLISHERS AND CREATORS

Ana Linett Vite Fernández A01168127

Jorge Ordoñez Rodríguez A01168503

Rosa Elena Catalán Quezada A01167802

Andre Spíndola Jesus Contreras Ojeda

The Paralympic games were declared inaugurated in England at the Olympic

Stadium in Stratford the Wednesday 29 In England for

The Queen Elizabeth II of England, this Paralympic are the largest games with more

than 4,200 athletes from 166 countries, the competition will

run until September 9 in London.

As it happened in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on July 27, the ceremony was presided over by Queen Elizabeth II of England, this time accompanied by the Dukes of Cambridge and his sons Eduardo and Ana,

Paralympic Games

Inauguration

The opening of the ceremony was a tribute to the Paralympic Athletes and the

ceremony started with a short speech of the author of “A brief history of time”,

about the origins of the universe, before some spectacular fireworks to simulate a “Big Bang” theory formulated by Albert

Einstein and developed by Hawking.

A quarter of an hour after that begins the show the Queen Elizabeth II came to the venue with his sons Eduardo and Ana, the Dukes of Cambridge, William and Catherine, and the President of the International Paralympic Committee, Philip Craven to the official inauguration of this games.

The fire and the light gave way to the next

number in which hundreds of dancers

appeared with colorful umbrellas to the

stadium while Rihanna was singing in the

background

Let the Paralympic Games begins!!!It’s a big event that makes the world be connected by the passion of sports. This event involves athletes with a range of physical and intellectual disabilities. This massive event is organized by the IPC (International Paralympic Committee). The IPC is the global governing body that organizes the Paralympics.They have their own purpose: “It’s to organize the summer and winter Paralympic Games and act as the International Federation for nine sports, supervising and coordinating World Championships and other competitions.”We also found the vision of this organization: “To enable Paralympic athletes to achieve sporting excellence and inspire and excite the world.”

The IPC wants to mark the Paralympic Values:For the IPC is very important to promote some values because you can mark a person

Courage: It encompasses the unique spirit of the

Paralympic athlete who seeks to accomplish what the general public deems unexpected, but what the athlete knows as a truth.

Determination: The manifestation of the idea that Paralympic athletes push their physical ability to the absolute limit.

Inspiration: When intense and personal affection is begotten from the stories and accomplishments of Paralympic athletes, and the effect is applying this spirit to one's personal life.

Equality: Paralympic Sport acts as an agent for change to break down social barriers of discrimination for persons with a disability.

Did you know…?

The first sport clubs for the deaf were in existence in 1888 in Berlin.

The first Paralympic Games were held in Rome, Italy in 1960 and featured 400 athletes from 23 countries. In 1976 Örnsköldsvik, Sweden staged the first Paralympic Winter Games.

These Games are now the second biggest sporting event in the world.

Bibliography:http://www.paralympic.org/TheIPC/HWA/HistoryoftheMovement

Let the Paralympic Games begins!!!

“Looking up to this special heroes”ince we’ve known for thousands of years, every sport’s world competition such as the Olympics and Paralympics Games have been successfully acknowledged throughout

the entirely world by simply applying all the fantastic athletes’ abilities and by remembering those unforgettable exploits reached by those marvelous sport items.

SAll people around the world seldom hold an absolutely awesome feeling towards people with disabilities because society has set up and enforced this meaningless stereotype ever created that lays down that Paralympic Games don’t have relevance and aren’t seen by the whole world TV audience as the Olympic Games. Therefore, these worst ideals come across from racist and inhuman minds whose principal purpose is to come up with “sociocentrism” [one group’s (nation, community, etc.) superiority belief above all groups]. However, athletes with disabilities always show off their effort, sacrifice and perseverance to spectators and as long as these values and principles start clearing out human minds, society would probably get rid of those unfair thoughts.

Around 167 countries during the Paralympic Games fought for their objectives to be rewarded by receiving three types of medals: gold, silver and bronze. These athletes have to be considered as national heroes by their own countries because only by making a great effort in every single discipline, they’re teaching us that within their limitations and physical hassles, all human being is able and allowed to break down all hard times to make them possible.

TOGETHER WE OUGHT TO PREVAIL EQUALITY AS AWAY TO AVOID SELFISH, MEANINGLESS AND HARMFUL STEREOTYPES.

Being yourself, without being afraid of being in the right or wrong, it’s more admirable than choosing the worst option which is giving up to the conformity. (Irving Wallace)

Consequently, there are 21 disciplines that must be fulfilled and achieved. Each discipline has a different kind of disability, so these special heroes are going to develop more efficiently their strengths in order to meet the success. For those who would like to know what disciplines were executed, we’ll point out all of them: Archery, Athletics, Boccia, Cycling Road, Cycling Track, Equestrian, Football 5-a-side, Football 7-a-side, Goal ball, Judo, Powerlifting, Rowing, Sailing, Shooting, Swimming, Table tennis, Sitting Volleyball, Wheelchair Basketball, Wheelchair Fencing, Wheelchair Rugby and Wheelchair Tennis.

The most interesting disciplines during this exciting tournament are:

*Athletics: Speed, strength, power and stamina will be on display during the Athletics competition. The largest sport at the Paralympic Games. 1,100 athletes compete for 170 gold medals across track, field and road events. Some athletes compete in wheelchairs or throwing frames, others with prostheses, and others with the guidance of a sighted companion.

*Football 7-a-side: is a fast-moving and fiercely competitive sport played by athletes with cerebral palsy. At London 2012, the Riverbank Arena will host eight men’s teams in a 20-match tournament, culminating in the gold medal match on 9 September.

*Swimming: With the second largest number of athletes and events at the Games, Swimming is one of the most popular Paralympic sports.

*Sitting Volleyball: Ten teams compete in the men’s and eight teams in the women’s competitions, with 11 athletes on each team (six players and five substitutes).Sitting Volleyball there are two categories of classification: disabled and minimal disability. A maximum of one minimally disabled player may be on the court for each team at any one time.

That’s the real pride for a nation’s self-esteem, till everybody’s self-esteem improves, there will be scarce beliefs about conformity and perseverance will prevail under our skins and minds.

Believe in yourself.

At this section many athletes tell us how they achieve their goals by believing in themselves and how nothing is impossible. They aren’t just athletes but also heroes.

The First one is Sebastian Iwanow, he is from Germany and he thinks that the most important thing when you practice a sport is to have fun and being concentrate in your goals. He is a swimmer and at that sport he feels that he have the opportunity to get the maximum out

of him and to be competitive with other athletes.

The second one is Jefferson da Conceição Gonçalves, he plays in the Brazil’s football team and for him the most important thing is to represent his country and return to Brazil victorious. Playing football is his childhood dream and it gives him happiness, health, culture and knowledge. He said that people need to follow their heart and dreams, ignoring all the difficulties that come along and always keep heading forward. To close he said that we never have to dive up and to always do our best.

The last of our heroes is Bridie Kean, she practices wheelchair basketball at -----, this sport for her requires physical condition, mental strength and the most important is the teamwork. She think that the most important to be successful is to first fail and learn and also that sport is life, the more you work on something, the better you become. People need to work smart and hard, be focused and enjoy the improvement: regardless of big or small.

“When you cannot do something, do not stop, find a different way and work as hard as you can to

accomplish what you care about”.

Bridie Kean.By: Rosa Elena Catalán

What about Mexico?

In the photo: Luis Alberto Zepeda Felix winner of the Men's Javelin Throw gold medal

Mexico made their Paralympic Games debut in 1972 in Heidelberg, with a team of seven athletes competing in track and field, swimming, weightlifting and wheelchair fencing. They have won 252 Paralympic medals. Now Mexico is competing at the official London Paralympic games with a total of 81 athletes.By Jorge Ordoñez. Major source of information and photos was the London 2012 paralympic games official page.

ne day before the Paralympic games finishes the Quick-Look Magazine gives you a documental about what happen with our loved country in their athletes. O

Mexico is competing with 81 athletes on the sport disciplines of archery, athletics, table tennis, boccia, equestrian, judo, powerlifting, swimming and wheelchair basketball.

One day before the competition finishes the medals for Mexico the total added medal are 21, making our delegation be in the 23 position in the medal ranking.

The medals are divided on 6 of gold, 4 of silver and 11 of bronze.

On athletics the disciplines to be with the glory were the men’s javelins throw (Luis Alberto Zepeda) and the woman’s shot put (Ortiz Hernandez Angeles) that won the golden medals.

On the judo, Avila Sanchez Eduardo won the bronze medal on the men’s 73 kg.

At the powerlifting of women’s 60 kg. discipline Amalia Perez won the golden medal and on the women’s +82.50 Perla Barcenas won the bronze medal.

And finally at the swimming discipline, Gustavo Sanchez Martinez, “the hero of the Mexican delegation”, because he won 2 golden medals, one of silver and one of bronze too. The swimming discipline finally contributed with 2 golden medals, one on the men’s 100 m free style-S4 and men’s 200 m free style -S4.

The Mexican delegation has The Mexican delegation has

exceeded the target of 20 medals and 40 finalists imposed by the Conade (National Commission of Physical Culture and Sports), one day before the end of the skills a total of 21 medals and 47 finalists.

Athletes that you have to meet!

The swimmer Gustavo Sánchez is the star of the Mexican delegation on London 2012 winning four medals, two of them of gold. In a statement of the Conade he expressed: “ I feel happy, proud, amazing. I’m Happy to have reached that number because this is all part of Mexico and Mexico.”

Maria de los Angeles Ortiz is another example of character strength. She had face to many things in her life. Seven years ago she was Seven years ago, she was hit by a speeding car, whose driver was drunk. This accident made that she lost her left leg. Not only had that come to change her life, because that year was diagnosed with cancer. We also had to face the recent death of his father.

Now a days she is a winner of a gold medal in the Olympics, in addition to imposing global

brand.