Logo and Brief History of Paralympics-1998 Courtesy Wikipedia

The 1998 Winter Paralympics, the seventh Winter Paralympics, were held alongside theWinter Olympics in Nagano, Japan from March 5 to March 14, 1998. They were the first Paralympic Winter Games to be held outside Europe. The games consisted of 34 events in four sports: alpine skiing, ice sledge hockey, ice sledge racing, and nordic skiing. The sport of Nordic skiing comprised two disciplines, thebiathlon and cross-country skiing.