Paralympics: London 2012 ‘to be biggest in history’
London 2012 will be the biggest Paralympics in history, with 19 more nations taking part than four years ago.
LONDON:
London 2012 will be the biggest Paralympics in history, with 19 more nations taking part than four years ago, said organisers while launching the 100-day countdown. Around 4,200 competitors will take part, up from 3,951 in Beijing in 2008, and 16 nations will be making their Paralympic debut. “London could be the Paralympic Movement’s first sold-out Games in terms of spectators too. A record number of TV viewers are also set to tune in,” said International Paralympic Committee President Philip Craven in a statement. “It’s hard to believe that the forerunner for the Paralympics took place just 64 years ago at Stoke Mandeville Hospital with 16 injured war veterans, when you consider that 4,200 elite athletes will now compete in London.”
Published in The Express Tribune, May 22nd, 2012.
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