Using multiple active transportation modes: cycling, running, rowing, swimming, riding (horses), and more, Paris streets, rivers, tracks and arenas are hosting over 15,000 amazing international athletes this summer. If, like me, you love the Olympics and feel a letdown during the closing ceremonies, you only have to take a 17-day break before you can again cheer for remarkable global athletes. The Paralympic Games begin on August 28, 2024. The first International Stoke Mandeville Games (officially becoming the Paralympic Games in 1984) were held in 1960 in Rome, a few years after the value of sports in rehabilitation for paraplegic or quadriplegic patients began in a hospital for World War II veterans in 1948. In Stoke Mandeville, England. There German neurologist Sir Ludwig Guttman organized archery and netball competitions for 16 veterans in wheelchairs. He saw it as a way to give them back dignity, increase their happiness, and make them respected in the opinions of non-disabled people. The 1960 games in