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Immediately following the end of the 2002
Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City,
important transformations took place to prepare
for the 2002 Winter Paralympics, held from 7 to
16 March 2002. Four hundred and sixteen
athletes from 36 nations competed in Alpine and
Nordic Skiing and Ice Sledge Hockey at the Salt
Lake City Paralympics.
The last Paralympics Summer Games were
held in Athens, Greece from 17 to 28 September
2004. A total of 3806 athletes from 136 countries
competed in 19 sports in the state-of-the-art
venues at the 2004 Paralympics.
The Italian city of Turin hosted the 2006
Paralympics Winter Games from 10-19 March 2006.
Approximately 590 athletes from more than countries
are expected. A new sport will be making its debut in
“Torino; Wheelchair Curling, bringing the total number
of sports to be contested to four: Alpine Skiing, Ice
Sledge Hockey, Nordic Skiing and Wheelchair Curling.
The next summer Paralympics in 2020 will be
held in Tokyo, Japan.

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