US Open Table Tennis Milwaukee 2011
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WELL DONE TO ALL OUR WINNERS!! Philly Quinlan from the SII office, Ronan Rooney, Eimear Breatnach and Rean Rooney who competed in the team event at the US Table Tennis Open in Milwaukee last week and brought back gold and silver and lots of points for the Paralympics London 2012.
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You can apply for tickets to the London 2012 Paralympic Games
between 9th September 2011 and 30th September 2011. |
| Ticket information for disabled people |
The 2012 Summer Paralympic Games will be the fourteenth Paralympics and will take place between 29th August and 9th September 2012.
The Games will be held in London, United Kingdom after the city was successful with its bid for the Paralympics and Summer Olympic Games.
There will be 1.6 million tickets available for the various events with a predicted sell-out rate of 63%.
Even though 2012 will be London's third Olympic Games, it will be the first Paralympic Games to be staged there, as the event was created after the last time the city hosted in 1948.
It is however the second time that the United Kingdom hosts a Paralympic Games. The 1984 Summer Paralympics were hosted in both Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom and Long Island, New York, United States.
Dr. Ludwig Guttmann of Stoke Mandeville Hospital hosted a sports competition for British World War II veteran patients with spinal cord injuries. The first games were called the 1948 International Wheelchair Games, and were intended to coincide with the 1948 Olympics. Dr. Guttman's aim was to create an elite sports competition for people with disabilities that would be equivalent to the Olympic Games. The games were held again at the same location in 1952, and Dutch veterans took part alongside the British, making it the first international competition of its kind. These early competitions, also known as the
Stoke Mandeville Games, have been described as the precursors of the Paralympic Games.
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