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| Location | Nassau County, New York, United States Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom |
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| Nations | 45 (USA) 41 (GBR) |
| Athletes | 1,800 (USA) 1,100 (GBR) |
| Events | 375 in 15 sports (USA) 603 in 10 sports (GBR) |
| Opening | 17 June (USA) 22 July (GBR) |
| Closing | 30 June (USA) 1 August (GBR) |
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| Stadium | Mitchel Athletic Complex (USA) Stoke Mandeville Stadium (GBR) |
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The 1984 International Games for the Disabled, commonly known as the 1984 Summer Paralympics, were the seventh Paralympic Games to be held. There were two separate competitions: one in Stoke Mandeville, England, United Kingdom for wheelchair athletes with spinal cord injuries and the other at the Mitchel Athletic Complex and Hofstra University on Long Island, New York, United States for wheelchair and ambulatory athletes with cerebral palsy, amputees, and les autres [the others] (conditions as well as blind and visually impaired athletes). Stoke Mandeville had been the location of the Stoke Mandeville Games from 1948 onwards, seen as the precursors to the Paralympic Games, as the 9th International Stoke Mandeville Games in Rome in 1960 are now recognised as the first Summer Paralympics.[1]
As with the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, the Soviet Union and other communist countries, except China, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Yugoslavia, boycotted the Paralympic Games.[2] The Soviet Union did not participate in the Paralympics at the time, arguing that they have no disabled people (called "invalids" by Soviet officials) in the country.[3] The USSR made its Paralympic debut in 1988, during Perestroika.
The 1984 Paralympic Games were the last Summer Games not to be staged by the same host city as the Olympic Games. Seoul hosted both events in 1988, a pattern maintained thereafter.
- ^ "2012 – The Paralympics come home", BBC, 4 July 2008
- ^ Bailey, Steve (2008). Athlete First: A history of the paralympic movement. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 35–26. ISBN 9780470058244.
- ^ Phillips, Sarah D. (2009). "'There Are No Invalids in the USSR!': A Missing Soviet Chapter in the New Disability History". Disability Studies Quarterly. 29 (3). Ohio State University Libraries; Society for Disability Studies. doi:10.18061/dsq.v29i3.936. Retrieved 21 July 2019.