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Playing to Win: Canada at the Paralympics
Wheelchair racers speeding to victory, blind swimmers competing for gold, and disabled skiers pushing their bodies to the limit. These are today's Paralympians. They train hard. They play to win. And in recent years, Canadians have been winning big at the Paralympic Games. The Paralympics began as a postwar sporting event designed to get injured ex-soldiers moving again. But by the 1980s the Games had evolved into an elite international competition.

	Rehabilitation through sport		Toronto hosts '76 disabled Olympiad		'A dive, sort of straddle, sort of roll'
	The father of the Paralympic movement explains why he founded an Olympiad for the disabled. (TV; runs 2:33)		Following on the heels of Montreal's 1976 Olympics, another Olympiad takes place in Toronto. (Radio; runs 1:31)		Front Page Challenge panellists are impressed by one-legged Canadian high jumper Arnie Boldt. (TV; runs 7:20)

	Breakthrough for the Paralympics		A two-tiered system?		Successful, but ignored
	A Canadian Paralympian describes the uplifting mood in Seoul at the 1988 Paralympic Games. (Radio; runs 2:38)		Paralympians debate the pros and cons of having wheelchair sports in the regular Olympics. (Radio; runs 8:34)		Canada may be winning tons of medals at the Paralympics but the Games still get little recognition. (TV; runs 2:46)

	Wheelchair basketball gold!		Sledge hockey spirit		Two for the road
	The Canadian women's wheelchair basketball team wins the gold medal in Atlanta. (TV; runs 3:23)		In Nagano, Canada's sledge hockey team prepares for its final game against Norway. (TV; runs 4:04)		A legally blind cyclist teams up with a sighted one in the Paralympic sport of tandem cycling. (TV; runs 5:18)

	Paralympics are not Special Olympics		Paralympic technology		The integration debate rages on
	Clearing up the confusion between the Games. (Radio; runs 5:43)		CBC looks at the technological advances in Paralympic equipment over the years. (Radio; runs 9:34)		The disabled sport world is still divided on whether able-bodied athletes should compete in wheelchair sports. (TV; runs 6:07)

LINKS Topic from Les Archives de Radio-Canada on the same subject Paralympiques, triomphe de l’humanité Related Topics from CBC's Archives Funding of Amateur Sports Getting the Games: Canada's Olympic Bids Gold Medal Athletes - 1948-1968 Golden Summers: Canada's Gold Medal Athletes 1984-2000 Never Made it to the Podium Rick Hansen: Man In Motion The Summer of '76: Montreal's Olympic Games The Winter of '88: Calgary's Olympic Games CBC.ca Torino 2006 Paralympic Games External sites Canadian Paralympic Committee The International Paralympic Committee Official site of the Olympic movement The CBC assumes no responsibility for the content of external links.

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