This document discusses the history of the Paralympic Games and presents Dasha Tkachenko's poster project featuring Yuri Nosulenko, a Russian disability athlete. It outlines significant milestones in the Paralympic movement, including the first games in 1948 and the upcoming 2012 London Paralympics, where Nosulenko aims to compete. The poster aims to inspire young people with disabilities by highlighting the achievements of disabled athletes and emphasizing that determination can lead to positive life changes.

1. Paralympic Games
Tkachenko Dasha 14 , Krasnodar
(Russia)

2. In my presentation I want to tell you about the history of
Paralympic Games and about the poster I would like to create.
The hero of my poster is Yuri Nosulenko. He is a Russian
disability athlete. I chose him, because he is strong, young,
persistent and charismatic.

3. History
The first Games for athletes with a disability were held in 1948 in
Stoke Mandeville, England. On the day of the Opening Ceremony
of the 1948 Olympic Games in London, the Stoke Mandeville
Games were launched and the first competition for wheelchair
was organized. Four years later, atheletes from the Netherlands
joined the Games; thus the international movement, now known
as the Paralympic movement, was born

4. Olympic style games for athletes with a disability were organized
for the first time in Rome in 1960, immediately after Olympic
Games. They are considered the first Paralympic Games. About
4000 athletes from 23 countries competed in 8 sports. 6 of
them are still included in the Paralympic Games. The Paralympic
Games have been held in the same year as the Olympic Games,
but usually in another country.

5. A new page in Paralympic history was written when, in 1988, the
Paralympic Games were held immediately following the Olympic
Games in Seoul, Korea, using the same facilities as the Olympic
Games. Since this date the Summer and Winter Paralympic
Games have followed the Olympic Games using the same
stadiums, village and in many cases sponsors and organizational
structures.

6. Paralympic Games in London 2012
The 2012 Summer Paralympic Games will be the
fourteenth Paralympics and will take place between 29 August and 9
September 2012. The Games will be held in London, United Kingdom.
This was the third time, when London organized Olympic and
Paralympic Games. The first Games were in 1908, and second Games
were in 1948. The program of the Paralympic Games - 2012 included 20
kinds of sports.

7. Our Russian disability athletes
For a lot of Russian
sportsmen it would
be a great honour to
take part in London
Paralympic Games.
And one of Russian
disability athletes
that will try to be a
Paralympic champion
is Yuri Nosulenko. He
is from Belgorod. He
is 24 years old.

8. Tragic accident
When Yuri was nine
years old a tragic
accident happened to
him. He found a
bullet and it
exploded in his palm.
Doctors couldn’t do
anything and his left
hand was amputated.
Yuri was keen on
running since he was
a child and after an
accident he
continued to go in for
sports.

9. He is the champion of Russia and World champion in track and field
athletics for sportsmen with disorders of musculoskeletal
system.

10. In 2008, Yuri Nosulenko took part in the XIII Paralympic
Games in Beijing. He was the fourth, but he became the first
athlete from Belgorod, who took part in this competition.

11. In 2009, Yuri
took part in the
World
Championship,
which was held in
India. He won a
gold medal. In the
same year, he
took part in the
World
Championship in
New Zealand. He
was the fourth.

12. “My main goal is
to win a
Paralympic gold
medal, – said
Yuri Nosulenko
- I inclined to
get it. I’ve got
relevant
experience. The
mistakes of
Beijing were
corrected. And
my age is
appropriate –
24 years old. I
am in my best
shape.”

13. In May 2011 Yuri took
part in Paralympic
World Cup in
Manchester
(England). Then he
started to train for
the Paralympic Games
in London 2012.

14. Poster
I think in my poster there should be a lot of images of athletes
with disabilities from different coutries and different kinds
of sports. And of course it should be an image of Yuri
Nosulenko with his medals in the centre.

15. I think that
if young
people with
disabilities
see my
poster, they
will
understand
that they
can do
something
special to
change their
lives.

16. My slogan:
It doesn’t matter,
that you have
disability, if you try
hard enough, your
life will change for
the better!