Sporting Witness
Sporting Witness
The first Winter Paralympic Games
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March 3, 2022
9 minutes
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The first Winter Paralympics were held in the Swedish town of Örnsköldsvik in 1976. Nearly two-hundred competitors came from 16 countries. Rachel Naylor speaks to two blind skiiing competitors with very different experiences - Finnish multi-gold medallist, Pertti Sankilampi, and Londoner Mike Brace, who learnt his sport shortly before the Games.
PHOTO: Paralympic skier Larry Kuntz in the 1970s (Getty Images/Denver Post)