Athletics teaches, socializes, entertains. Blind and deaf people, people on a wheelchair, or people without disabilities, we all are equal. We all have the right to sport. Nothing can be an obstacle to stop us from doing what we like. Will in combination with good mood and some time are enough. Such people with will are the Paralympics. Champions that never gave up, that believed in their selves, that stubbornly contested and distinguished themselves.

Michael Seitis, holder of track and field world record, even though he lost one leg in a motorcycle accident didn’t lose his thirst for sport. Adonis Tsapatakis, world swimming champion after a motorcycle accident -him too- could never walk again, without nevertheless this being able to stop his career from continuing. World fencing champion, Panos Triadafyllou whose life was changed by a car accident since he never walked again, found the chance to do another sport and eminent. He, also, emphasized that athletics is above all. These are only 3 of the mighty Paralympics.

But the Paralympic Games didn’t always exist. People like these didn’t have the chance to follow their dreams, to make them come true. Organized, officially, Paralympic Games took place for the first time at 1960 in Rome.

This kind of championship isn’t projected that much. Though it must be noted that records from these games can be compared with the Olympics’ ones. The champions themselves state that it’s worth a shot. One problem cannot stop you. One problem cannot take from you the right to sport.