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Why did the Paralympics begin?

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Originator for Paralympic Games was Dr Ludwig Guttmann in 1948 for British veterans with spinal cord injuries who were patients at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, near Aylesbury, north west of London, UK.

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Because the disabled needed events similar to the Olympics that go on today.

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Because they didnt have it

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around the 1960'S

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after the ww2

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In Rome.

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