Sport favors integration and imposes a personal, physical and psychic commitment, which increases self-awareness, however the trial in which the disabled person is committed and revolves around attention . The exhibitions and sports demonstrations are to encourage disabled people, young people and adults, to practice sports, presenting the various possibilities and orienting them towards the most suitable choice for them and also to raise awareness among people "without disabilities", thus promoting the integration.

It is well known by all the benefits of sports they are very many and undeniable. Those who play sports live longer because they better protect their health, see less small diseases such as headaches, gastric disorders, constipation, prevent muscle and bone decline. The limits of the body do not always correspond to the limits of the soul nor much less of the will.

The continuity of Paralympic Sports and of the practice of the sport must be ensured throughout life, by means of permanent education, to foster the full integration of every country. 

The common habit leads many to think of people with disabilities as sick, steady, immobile people until they witness their performances that show anything but: passion, sacrifice used in competitions, determination to make the most of their remaining abilities and their vitality.

Today athletes with physical disabilities, thanks to technological innovation, have the chance to try their hand at all the sports competitions, with performances closer and closer to those of able-bodied people. With the use of materials, such as carbon fibers, Kevlar, titanium alloys, high strength aluminum alloys, they allowed to face the complex problems related to disability, revolutionizing the world of Paralympic sport.

Disabled athletes live sport not as physiotherapy but in the fullness of the recreational-competitive characteristics of sporting activity. Advances in science can glimpse a future in which prosthetics will be available that imitate any part of the human body, bringing more and more the number of integrated competitions between healthy athletes and those suffering from a handicap, turning sport into an opportunity for the disabled and able-bodied to meet at the same level.

Disability and sport: it is a limitless combination. It is a winning combination, if the sport competition becomes the most loved and with the world, to break down prejudices, overcome uncertainties, to become the most watched sport.

Here are the most famous sportsmen who have never stopped fighting despite their disabilities:

Alex Zanardi is one of the famous racing driver, that provoked his current disability which caused the amputation of the legs. Alex, once out of the hospital, immediately began rehabilitation to go back to racing and became one of the greatest champions of Paralympics in the paracyclist races. An incredible story.

Beatrice Vio is a true force of nature and a young fencing champion.

Amir Lone is a cricket player, a champion of this game, but without arms.

The Dutch girl Esther Vergeer was number 1 in the world ranking of wheelchair tennis.


When it comes to Paralympic Sports the sky is just a stepping stone.