Para-Games Sports

What are the Paralympic Values?

• Courage, Equality, Integrity and Determination

• Inspiration, Courage, Determination and Teamwork

• Determination, Integrity, Courage and Excellence

• Inspiration, Courage, Determination and Equality

This is the new symbol to acknowledge a person using a wheelchair. What is the proper way to address them?

• A person with disabilities.

• Handicapped.

• Wheelchair-bound person.

Classification in Para-sports is to ensure success is determined by skill, fitness, power, endurance, tactical ability and mental focus.

• True

• False

Athletes competing in Para sports have an impairment that leads to a _____________________.

• competitive advantage

• competitive disadvantage

• non-competitive advantage

Which of the following are the impairment types for competitive Para-sports?

• Physical Impairment

• Intellectual Impairment

• Hearing Impairment

• Visual Impairment

Which Impairment has the most types within the classification?

• Physical Impairment

• Intellectual Impairment

• Visual Impairment

How many types of impairment are there in the Physical Impairment classification?

• 6

• 8

• 9

• 10

All impairments are visually noticeable.

• True

• False

A person with disabilities can still participate in sports despite not being eligible to compete in the Paralympics.

• Yes, as long they can enjoy sports.

• No, they cannot do sports at all.

Athletes in the same class will not look identical because________________________.

• there is a spectrum of impairment in each class.

• they come from different countries.

• they wear different attire.