The Paralympic Games is a product of the development of contemporary society and sports for the disabled to a certain stage. It is a sign of the level of social civilization. The IOC attaches great importance to and supports the Paralympic Games.
During World War II, due to the large number of patients and poor medical conditions in advance, Dr. gertman, director of stoke Mandeville spinal cord injury center in England, put forward the imagination of using activity methods to assist in surgical treatment of spinal cord injury, and created the rehabilitation center for the disabled. In 1948, for the first time, the center organized 16 disabled men and women in wheelchairs to compete in archery. In 1952, with the participation of the Dutch disabled archery team, the stoke Mandeville event became an international disabled event. In the same year, Dr. Gutman initiated the establishment of the international field wheelchair competition Alliance (ismgf). In 1960, the Italians who successfully held the 17th Olympic Games organized the first world disabled sports meeting in Rome, which opened a precedent for the world disabled sports competition to follow the form of the Olympic Games. Later, the host country of the Winter Olympic Games generally also holds the world disabled games.
In 1989, the International Paralympic Committee was established to undertake the obligation of holding the Paralympic Games. In addition, it is also the only world organization to organize all kinds of sports events for the disabled and international championships for the disabled. In the future, international sports activities for the disabled will have a closer relationship with the Olympic five ring flag and will be carried out more and more vigorously.