Wheelchair basketball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games (), the 13th

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, took place in

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, China from September 6 to 17, 2008. As with the

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, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing events in

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. It was first time the new Paralympic logo featured in the Summer Paralympics since its rebranding after the

2004 Summer Paralympics ) , nations = 136 , athletes = 3,806 , events = 519 in 19 sports , opening = 17 September , closing = 28 September , opened_by = President Costis Stephanopoulos , cauldron = Georgios Toptsis , stadium = Olympic ...

. 3,951 athletes from 146 countries took part,"Beijing 2008"

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the largest number of nations ever (ten more than the 2004 Games in Athens). Five countries competed for the first time. As host country, China fielded more

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s than any other country. The slogan for the 2008 Paralympics was the same as the

, "One World, One Dream" (

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''Tóng yīge shìjìe tóng yīge mèngxiǎng'', lit. "One World, One Dream"). China dominated the medal count, finishing with 89 gold medals and 211 total medals, more than double the next-ranked NPC in both cases. 339 Paralympic records and 279 world records were broken. International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President

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declared the Games "the greatest Paralympic Games ever." Beijing was selected to host the

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, making it the first city to host both a Summer and Winter Games.

Venues

Nineteen competition venues were selected—seventeen in Beijing, one in Hong Kong, and one in

. #

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(''Birds Nest'') - Athletics, Opening and closing ceremonies #

Beijing National Aquatics Center The National Aquatics Centre (), and colloquially known as the Water Cube () and the Ice Cube (), is an aquatics center at the Olympic Green in Beijing, China. The facility was originally constructed to host the aquatics competitions at the ...

(''Water Cube'') - Swimming #

Beijing National Indoor Stadium The National Indoor Stadium (official name) ()Official Beijing Olympics siteNational Indoor Stadium is an indoor stadium that is located in the Olympic Green in Beijing, China. The stadium has a capacity of 20,000 people, and was constructed ...

(''Fan'') - Wheelchair basketball # Fencing Gymnasium of Olympic Green Convention Centre - Boccia, Wheelchair fencing #

Olympic Green Archery Field The Olympic Green Archery Field () was one of nine temporary venues for the 2008 Summer Olympics. It hosted the archery events. The field occupied 9.22 hectares The hectare (; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square ...

- Archery #

Olympic Green Hockey Field The Olympic Green Hockey Field () was one of nine temporary venues used for the 2008 Summer Olympics. It hosted the field hockey competitions during the Olympics and the football-5-a-side and 7-a-side events during the 2008 Summer Paralympics. ...

- Football 5-a-side, Football 7-a-side #

Olympic Green Tennis Centre The National Tennis Center (), is a tennis center located in the Olympic Green. It opened on 1 October 2007. It hosted the tennis preliminaries and finals of singles and doubles for men and women at the Beijing 2008 Olympics as well as the Paraly ...

(''Flowers'') - Wheelchair tennis #

Peking University Gymnasium Peking University Gymnasium (), nicknamed China's Spine (), is an indoor arena located in the southeastern part of Peking University in Beijing, China. The gymnasium was constructed for the table tennis events of the 2008 Summer Olympics and t ...

- Table tennis #

Beihang University Gymnasium Beihang University Gymnasium (, sometime listed as the Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics Gymnasium) is a 5,400-seat indoor arena located on the campus of Beihang University in Beijing, China. It hosted weightlifting competitions at t ...

- Powerlifting #

China Agricultural University Gymnasium The China Agricultural University Gymnasium () is an indoor arena located on the campus of the China Agricultural University in Beijing. It hosted the wrestling events of the 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Ga ...

- Sitting volleyball #

Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium The Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium () is an indoor arena located on the campus of the University of Science and Technology Beijing. The venue covers an area of 2.38 hectares and the total floor space of construction reaches 2 ...

- Wheelchair rugby #

Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium () is a 5,000-seat indoor arena located on the campus of Beijing Institute of Technology in Beijing, China. It hosted volleyball competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the goalball competition at th ...

- Goalball #

Beijing Shooting Range Hall The Beijing Shooting Range Hall () is a shooting hall located in Shijingshan District, Beijing. It hosted the qualifying rounds and finals of ten shooting sports events at the 2008 Summer Olympics, consisting of all 10-, 25- and 50-metre events. I ...

- Shooting #

Laoshan Velodrome The Laoshan Velodrome () is a velodrome that is located in Laoshan, Shijingshan District, Beijing, China. It was built for the 2008 Summer Olympics. The venue was tested during the UCI Track World Cup in December 2007. The velodrome hosted Cyclin ...

- Cycling (track) # Workers Gymnasium - Judo #

Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park The Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park () was built for the Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics, rowing, Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics, canoeing and Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 10 km open-water swimming events in the 2008 Summer O ...

- Rowing #

Triathlon Venue The Ming Tombs Reservoir or the Shisanling Reservoir (十三陵水库) is a dam in Changping District of northern Beijing. Named for the Ming tombs nearby, it is the lower reservoir of the Shisanling Pumped Storage Power Station. The earth-fill em ...

- Cycling (road) #

Hong Kong Equestrian Venues The Hong Kong Sports Institute () is a sports institute located in Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong. It is mandated to provide training to athletes, and also offers academic qualification in the field of sports training. The institute sponsors ...

- Equestrian #

Qingdao International Sailing Centre The Qingdao International Sailing Centre () is a sailing marina located on the former site of the Beihai Shipyard by Qingdao's Fushan Bay at Shandong Province in China. It was constructed for the 2008 Summer Olympics. It hosted the Olympic and Para ...

- Sailing

Symbols

Emblem

The Games's emblem, "Sky, Earth, and Human Beings" (), was unveiled in July 2004, a multicolored Chinese character "之" () stylized as an athletic figure in motion. Its red, blue and green colors represent sun, sky and earth.

Slogan

The slogan was the same as the

, "One World, One Dream".

Mascots

The mascot was a cartoon cow named Fu Niu Lele (), roughly meaning "Lucky Ox 'Happy'".

Theme song

The theme song was " Flying with the Dream" . It was performed by Chinese-Tibetan singer Han Hong and Hong Kong singer and actor

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Torch relay

The torch relay of the 2008 Summer Paralympics started from Tian Tan (Temple of Heaven) on August 28. The flame then gathered before ''The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests'' (祈年殿) and followed two routes (the "Route of Ancient China" and the "Route of Modern China"). Both routes returned to Beijing on September 5, and the torch was flamed at the

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during the Opening Ceremony on September 6.

The Games

Opening ceremony

The opening ceremony took place on September 6, 2008. The pre-ceremony performance was a succession of various musical performances, ranging from military music to folk music and a performance of ''

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''."Full Coverage: The Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games"
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display signalled the beginning of the ceremony proper. The national flag of China was then raised, in accordance with usual protocol, and the

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of China performed. Performers wearing suits in bright colours paraded round the stadium, as a welcoming ceremony preceding the athletes' entry. As with the

, the ceremony included a parade of nations, with a flag bearer for each national team. Contrary to Olympic tradition, the national team of Greece did not enter first, as the Paralympic Games traces its roots to

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rather than

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; the host country, as is customary in both Olympic and Paralympic Games, came last. As Chinese is written in characters and not letters, the order of the teams' entry was determined by the number of strokes in the first character of their respective countries'

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names. Countries with the same number of strokes in the first character are sorted by those of the next character. This made

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(几内亚) the first country to enter as it takes two strokes to write the first character in the country's name (几). Following the athletes' parade, a performance took place, divided into chapters and sub-chapters entitled the "Journey of Space" and "Journey of Life" The sunbird performance entailed Yang Haitao (杨海涛), a singer with a visual impairment, singing about dreams while an acrobat in sunbird costume descended in simulated flight from the air and "awakened the blind singer from his sleep". The ceremony concludes with

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, the first Chinese paralympian to be three-time champion consecutively in the same event, lifted himself and his wheelchair up on a rope by strength of arms to the top of

, where he lit the cauldron to mark the beginning of the Games.Peopledaily.
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Closing ceremony

The 2008 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony was held at the

. It began at 8:00 pm

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(

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) on September 17, 2008.English People's Daily.
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" ''2008 Olympics Closing Ceremony – Beijing.'' Retrieved on September 28, 2008.

Sports

Twenty sports were on the program: *

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Football 7-a-side Cerebral palsy football, also called ''7-a-side football'' or formerly ''Paralympic football'', is an adaptation of association football for athletes with cerebral palsy and other neurological disorders, including stroke and traumatic brain injur ...

Goalball Goalball is a team sport designed specifically for athletes with a vision impairment. Participants compete in teams of three, and try to throw a ball that has bells embedded inside of it into the opponents' goal. The ball is thrown by hand a ...

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Rowing Rowing is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using the sweeping motions of oars to displace water and generate reactional propulsion. Rowing is functionally similar to paddling, but rowing requires oars to be mechanically atta ...

Sailing Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (land yacht) over a chosen cour ...

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Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

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Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

Wheelchair basketball Wheelchair basketball is basketball played by people with varying physical disabilities that disqualify them from playing a non-disabled sport. These include spina bifida, birth defects, cerebral palsy, paralysis due to accident, amputations (of ...

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Wheelchair rugby Wheelchair rugby (originally murderball, and known as quad rugby in the United States) is a team sport for athletes with a disability. It is practised in over twenty-five countries around the world and is a summer Paralympic sport. The US name ...

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Rowing made its first appearance in the Paralympics at these games.

Calendar

Participating NPCs

The following

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s sent delegations to compete.

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and the

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are members of the

, but not of the

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; hence they participate in the Paralympic Games but not in the Olympics.

Burundi Burundi (, ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( rn, Repuburika y’Uburundi ; Swahili language, Swahili: ''Jamuhuri ya Burundi''; French language, French: ''République du Burundi'' ), is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the ...

Gabon Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, it is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north ...

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and

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participated in the Paralympics for the first time.

Botswana Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label=Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalahar ...

was due to take part, but its single athlete, defending Paralympic champion sprinter

Tshotlego Morama Tshotlego Morama, born in Lethakane in 1987, is a Botswana Paralympic sprinter. Representing Botswana at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, she won gold in the women's 400m sprint in the T46 disability category, setting a new world r ...

, withdrew prior to the Games due to injury. The country's last-minute attempt to field other athletes in her place was rejected, as they did not meet the requirement of having participated in international events.

Medal count

This table is based on the medal count of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). The ranking is sorted primarily by the number of gold medals earned by a National Paralympic Committee. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by IPC Country Code.

Events highlights

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(ABC)'s

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provided coverage on ABC Australian National Television's

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(CCTV) provided coverage on

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provided coverage on JOAK-1 * –

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provided coverage on

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. In France, following the Games,

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, national secretary of the governing

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, accused national public television network

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of having practiced "segregation" by providing live coverage of the Beijing Olympics but only ten-minute daily summaries of events, outside prime time, for the Beijing Paralympics. France Télévisions replied that it would take Juvin to court for

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, Agence France-Presse, September 18, 2008.

References

External links

Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games Official SiteInternational Paralympic CommitteeParalympic Online Streaming Coverage
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Sports competitions in Beijing

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