The Olympic Games are considered to be the world’s ____ sports competition with more than 200 nations ____. The Games are held every two years, with Summer and Winter Olympic Games ____. The Paralympics have grown from a small gathering of British World War II ____to become one of the world’s largest international sport events. The Paralympic Games is the biggest sporting event in the world for ____ athletes. There are six classifications for athletes ranging from those with ____ cord injuries to the visually impaired. The word ‘Paralympic’ ____ from the Greek preposition ‘para’, meaning ‘beside’, and the word ‘Olympics’. The Paralympic Games were created by Ludwig Guttmann, a German neurosurgeon who escaped Jewish ____ to find refuge in the UK. At Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, he treated the growing number of ____ servicemen returning from the front, many of whom were paralysed and faced an uncertain future. Guttmann was aware of the positive psychological ____ of physical activity and so his treatment regime included individual and team sports. The first competition between disabled athletes was archery and it took place on the same day as the ____ ceremony of the 14th Olympic Games .

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