Showing posts with label Paralympics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paralympics. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Paralympics Biathlon - Disabled Skiing and Shooting - an extremely demanding sport

Paralympics Biathlon. The sport of cross country skiing is an aerobic workout hard. Step into the boots to slip the boots into bindings and ski out. Ahhh. It seems so easy to do.

In real life, after a few slides and moves the heart rate increased, the lungs are trying desperately need oxygen at a time, start to produce sweat. Now try to keep this on a few miles with a rifle on his back 7 pounds. Oh, did I mention that you must stop,occasionally flop on his belly, bring your gun around, to see a small target, test hours, shaking his body control, as with a heart that now beats in his chest and press the audience engaged. This is the biathlon.

The sport was introduced successfully in 1988 Paralympics in Innsbruck, Austria with great.

The categories are the same for both cross-country skiing and biathlon.

Paralympics Biathlon combines cross-country athletesClay pigeon shooting.

Paralympic skier shoot from the prone position differs from biathlon skiers at the Olympics.

Athletes ski times and 2.5 km long loop. Each cycle requires the skier to stop twice and removed five shots at a target with five metal plates 10 meters. The Bulls Eye is only 15 mm, about half inch in diameter. The penalty for a miss, the skier is 150 meters per cycle of losing skiing.

Which of the blind? How canthey compete?

In 2002, in Salt Lake biathlon Paralympic Games a wonderful new device has been successfully introduced. Protecting the blind can hear different sounds when the gun is pointing right at the target Bulls Eye.

In the case of long-distance athletes to stop the cycle five times to four times per cycle to go shoot. For each missed a penalty minutes added to time skiers.

The biathlon race with a staggered start of 30 seconds andhandicap system which is basically what is used to compensate the skiers. The field of time added to the skiers and calibrates the lowest time wins.

When the sport began to disabled athletes were usually wounded service personnel.

Powerful military rifles have been used, but in 1978 the guns were standardized and the.22 caliber rifle was the standard. Today's biathlon rifles are strange. Everyone seems different. L 'Standard is only she must have a minimum weight of 7.7 pounds.

various dishes are adapted for disabled athletes from under them. essentially carried the gun on your back with a strap that allows quick release. The gun must maintain a flip cover over the muzzle of snow. There is a belt of stability, the shooter used to stabilize the weapon during aiming and shooting.

Regulation.22 gun ammunition clips holding five caliber bullets.Savings in the stock market for quick and easy. Firearms should be shot. For relay races, the athlete saved three more rounds in rifle stock, if necessary.

The targets hit are the round metal disks. When doing a rotation different colored discs, a hit show of success. The computer connected to maintain the target score electronically.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Paralympics - very special people for special sports

Paralympic Games follow the Olympic games in ten days. After the 2010 Vancouver Olympics athletes are finished, what they do best, Paralympics from all over the world converge on Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia to compete.

So really, what are the games?
-What constitutes disability?
-What sports can we expect?
-Where to get position every sport?

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So just what are the games anyway?

The Second World War had a profound effect on the people of the world that has experienced this terrible conflict. Millions of brave soldiers, sailors and airmen lost their lives in search of freedom for the rest of us to win.

For every death, many more wounded and many were disabled for life. Thousands were in wheelchairs. Countless of these brave souls had lost limbs.

Sir Ludwig Guttmann wasBorn in Poland in 1899. In 1939 he was working one of the leading neurologists in a Jewish hospital in the beautiful city of Wroclaw on the Oder. He was forced to flee to England when the Germans invaded Poland.

He firmly believed that sport was a wonderful therapy to build strength and well-being of those who were seriously injured. The British government founded the National Spinal Injuries Centre in a village near London and asked him to be the director ofCenter.

He could play various games organized for the disabled. occur every year a couple of games athletes would have been included to 1953 approximately 145th

Administrators Olympics began to take note of these games were in Rome and in early 1960 after the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games is well since then. Guttmann was the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for his outstanding Leadership Award. L 'Paralympic Winter Games were held in Sweden in 1976 and became an integral part of the 1992 Olympic Games as games in Albertville.

What constitutes a disability?

There are six basic groups within the competence of the Paralympic Movement. These are spinal cord injuries, visual impairment, amputations, cerebral palsy, mental retardation and another group with disabilities, the field outside the other and do not fall into anyCategory.

Every sport has its own classification rules. The athletes are governed by officials know how classifiers, their sport's athletes look inside and out. If an athlete improves, he / she may be reclassified upward or downward. The system is evolving and is always open to revision.

What sports can you expect?

There are four competitions for the Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010.

Ski Alpin.

Withthe invention of the mono ski sport has gained popularity very quickly. Now, skiers with disabilities who can not stand to stay in position and fixed on crutches with special short skis, are able to check and maintain their balance.

Cross Country

With the Paralympic Games 1976 in Örnsköldsvik in Sweden the sport of skiing has its beginning. The first is the classical form was allowed. were now 30 years later, many changesOpening the doors to a large number of skiers with a variety of disabilities.

Wheelchair Curling

The sport got its start at the Winter Paralympics in Turin, Italy. very similar to regular curling the athlete sitting in a wheelchair player, or push the stones with action arm or a keyword that a slide on the ice with concentric rings. The task of pushing the stone is more challenging than regular curling, for athletes to play whileThe chair is stationary.

Ice Sledge Hockey

The exciting sport of Ice Sledge Hockey had its introduction in 1994 of the Paralympic Games in the beautiful city of Lillehammer, Norway. The basket is usually made of aluminum with two blades of steel. Players have two double sided sticks. They have a shot at one end and a curved blade, which they use to flip the disc. The collection can win the player on the ground to push the sledges on the ice.

BiathlonSkiing and Shooting

The main difference between Olympic and Paralympic Biathlon Biathlon is the firing position. It 's always the stomach in the latter sport. The categories are the same in the long run. The equipment for skiers who do not have the use of his legs with a device called a sit-ski. This is a very challenging sport.

The 2010 Paralympic Games in Vancouver, promising, offering enjoyment for all those who votedto visit.

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