{"id":1102,"date":"2009-11-21T11:14:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T17:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2022-10-12T23:36:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T20:36:53","slug":"intellectual-disability-athletes-in-2012-paralympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/intellectual-disability-athletes-in-2012-paralympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Intellectual disability athletes in 2012 Paralympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1103\" title=\"paraolympics\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/paraolympics.jpg\" alt=\"paraolympics\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" \/><strong>ATHLETES with an intellectual disability will be able to compete at the London 2012 Paralympics following a vote by the International Paralympic Committee.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Such athletes had been previously banned after it was discovered a large part of Spain&#8217;s intellectual disability team at the Sydney 2000 Paralympics was not disabled.<\/p>\n<p>But at the IPC general assembly in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, it was decided they will be reinstated with Great Britain announcing their support of the move.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid problems such as that of the Spanish basketball team, there will be a stringent classification procedure, focusing on \u2018sports intelligence&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>IPC President Sir Philip Craven said: &#8220;Today&#8217;s achievement is the outcome of a unique and excellent co-operation between sports governance and the scientific community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wish all intellectual disability athletes the best of success in their attempt to set world class performances at future competitions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Athletes with intellectual disabilities were not able to compete at Athens 2004 or Beijing 2008. However, the International Sports Federation for Persons with an Intellectual Disability (Inas-Fid) has been working with the IPC in a bid to lift the ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHLETES with an intellectual disability will be able to compete at the London 2012 Paralympics following a vote by the International Paralympic Committee. Such athletes had been previously banned after it was discovered a large part of Spain&#8217;s intellectual disability team at the Sydney 2000 Paralympics was not disabled. But at the IPC general assembly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,63],"tags":[1754,1755,1765,1759,1764,1761,12384,1756,1758,1757,1763,1762,1760],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-daily","tag-athletes","tag-athletes-intellectual-disability","tag-inas-fid","tag-international-paralympic-committee","tag-international-sports-federation","tag-ipc","tag-kuala-lumpur","tag-london-2012","tag-london-2012-paralympics","tag-paralympics","tag-sir-philip-craven","tag-spanish-basketball","tag-sydney-2000-paralympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}