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To allow disabled youths to gain insight to the ideals of Pierre de Coubertin, we intend to organise a mini-Paralympics event that would enable them experience sports first hand. The events to be included are: wheelchair racing, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair tennis, volleyball and goalball.

1998 USA Paralympic sit volleyball team

wheelchair basketball

Sports education for the disabled youths in Singapore

Currently, there are limited opportunities for disabled youths to enjoying sports education, compared their physically able counterparts. As there is only one organization, SDSC(Singapore Disability Sports Council), organising activities for disabled athletes, there are generally insufficient facilities and programmes catering to the physically disabled locally. Due to inactivity of the disabled athlete community, there is a low level of awareness of physical education for disabled youths. Thus little attention is given to such education to disabled youths.

Pierre de Coubertin

The person behind the modern day Olympic Movement – Pierre Frédy, Baron de Coubertin.

Coubertin felt that education was imperative to society, and being an avid sportsman, he wanted to reform France’s education system by means of sports. In 1894, he announced in a meeting at the UFSAS(Union of French Societies of Athletic Sports) his intention to revive the Olympic Games, and later founded the IOC(International Olympic Committee) in a ceremony held at the University of Sorbonne.

In 1896, the first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, and Coubertin was elected the second president of the IOC on that occasion, which he remained until 1925, thus laying the groundwork for both the Olympics and the Olympic spirit.