Переведите на язык) 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 olympic games in london, the first competition for wheelchair athletes was organised. four years later, athletes from the netherlands joined the games; thus the international movement was born. olympic style games for athletes with a disability were organised for the first time in rome in 1960 about 4000 athletes from 23 countries competed in 8 sports. since then paralympic games have been organised every 4 years. the paralympic games have been held in the same years as the olympic games, but usually in another country. in 1976 the first paralympic games took place in sweden. a new page in the paralympic history was written when, in 1988, the paralympic games started immediately following the olympic games in seoul, korea.