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What is the value of the Paralympics and how do they and other sports competitions help break down the walls for people with disabilities?
EESC member Pietro Barbieri writes about the history of sports competitions for people with disabilities and how the two Olympics – the one held in Seoul in 1988 and the other in London in 2012 – brought the much needed change in the perception of disability. We finally entered a world of sport practised by all for all.