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Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics Games 2018, Action starts at South Korea

Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics Games 2018, Action starts at South Korea

Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics Games 2018 has been started in South Korea on Today at 9 March. Winter Olympics games will take place on today at 9th March, and this tournament will be ended on 18th March. Google has also created a doodle for encouraging the disabled people. In this Paralympics games, Physically disabled and mentally ill players from all over the world are participating. Athletics are participating in several sports which include alpine skiing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, ice hockey, snowboarding and wheelchair curling. A Total 570 athletes from 48 nations are competing for 80 medals in this Winter Paralympic games 2018. 

The majority of medals will come on snow, with 30 golds on offer in alpine skiing in disciplines such as downhill, slalom and giant slalom divided into standing, sitting and visually impaired classifications. On the ice, Mixed men and women will compete in the ice sledge hockey and wheelchair curling for two prestigious titles. For 2018 PyeongChang Paralympics games Google has doodled a moderately dynamic and colourful doodle for courage and conviction of the differently-abled athletes/Players. According to the Official website of Paralympics games total, 670 participants from 50 nations are participating in this event.
The U.S. is sending the largest committee of 68 athletes, while Canada is sending 52. As with the Olympic Games, Russia’s athletes will again be competing as part of an open-minded delegation, called the Neutral Paralympic Athletes. There most of the athletes were caught in Doping Scandal. North Korea is making their Winter Paralympics debut, with two athletes in the cross-country skiing, North Korean and South Korean athletes walked at the opening ceremony under a unified flag, the two nations will remain separate for the Paralympics ceremony. For LIVE Streaming of Paralympics Games 2018, NBC, NBCSN, Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA and the NBC Sports app are streaming the live updates and coverage of these games.

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Abhishek Lohia

Abhishek Lohia was a Sports and Political Writer working for Newsfolo and is no longer associated with the organization.

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