Brief History by Wikipedia and Logo of Paralympics-1984

The 1984 Winter Paralympic Games were the third Winter Paralympics. They were held from 14 to 20 January 1984 in Innsbruck, Austria. They were the first Winter Games organized by the International Co-ordinating Committee (ICC), which was formed on March 15, 1982 in Leysin, Switzerland. These Games were accessible for all athletes withcerebral palsy. For the first time, an exhibition event was held at the Olympic Winter Games in Sarajevo and 30 male three-track skiers took part in the Giant Slalom event. Three sports were contested: alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, and ice sledge speed racing. The most successful athlete was German alpine skier Reinhild Moeller, who won 3 gold medals and 1 silver medal. The Games, then known as the Third World Winter Games for the Disabled, were fully sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

History and Logo of Paralympics-1984

The 1984 Summer Paralympics (branded as the 1984 International Games for the Disabled) were the seventh Paralympic Games to be held. They were held in two separate locations, Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom (wheelchair athletes with spinal cord injuries) and in the Mitchel Athletic Complex and Hofstra University in Long Island, New York,United States of America (wheelchair and ambulatory athletes with cerebral palsy, amputees, and les autres (the others) conditions as well as blind and visually impaired athletes). Stoke Mandeville had been the location of the Stoke Mandeville Games from 1948 onwards, seen as the precursors to the Paralympic Games. Like the 1984 Summer Olympics, the Soviet Union and other communist countries except China boycotted the Games.

The 1984 Summer Paralympics were originally intended to be hosted by the University of Illinois. However, due to financial issues faced by the university it pulled out of hosting the Games three months before they were set to begin. On short notice, Long Island and Stoke Mandeville took up the task of hosting the Games.

These were the last Summer Paralympics not held in the venues of the Summer Olympic Games.