The World Competes » Polish paralympic team http://www.worldcompetes.com/blog Olympic News and Information Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:33:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 2006 Torino Paralympics http://www.worldcompetes.com/blog/2010/03/2006-torino-paralympics/ http://www.worldcompetes.com/blog/2010/03/2006-torino-paralympics/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:00:30 +0000 Lorren http://www.worldcompetes.com/blog/?p=309 Paralympics Logo

With the 2010 Vancouver Paralympics starting this week, I thought that I’d take a look back at the previous Paralympic games in Torino.

Although the United States was second in the Olympic rankings in the able-bodied Torino Olympics, it placed fifth in the rankings for the Paralympics, with 7 gold medals and 12 total. Russia blew away the competition, with 13 gold medals and 33 total medals. 39 nations and 486 athletes participated. There were 20 events.

Torino was the first year that the Paralympics were broadcast over the Internet (as they will be in Vancouver). Out of all the drug tests that were given, there were no doping violations (I’d like to see that one in the regular Olympics).

Here’s a video that recaps the 2006 Paralympic experience from the point of view of the Polish team:

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