Paralympic Games participations and general availability Athlete and spectator participation Since the start of a small friendly competition between post-war veterans with spinal cord injuries in 1948 at Stoke in England, we have witnessed the slow evolution of how countries have changed their view of disabled participants, enabling the evolution of the Paralympic Games. With multiple growths developing over the past few years, such as athlete attendance shown in Figure 1.1, you can see that there has been a big shift in the disability world with the number of participants increasing. across the world. Just over a period of 8 years, between 2004 and 2012, there was a growth of 496 competitors and 28 countries. Additionally, there has been an increase of over 1.5 million tickets sold over the last four games from Sydney 2000 to London 2012, showing that there has been greater interest in the Games Paralympics in recent years. This is a dramatic increase, especially considering that they only started selling tickets to the Atlanta Paralympics in the United States in 1996, as well as television rights and sponsorships. You can infer that the IPC (International Paralympic Committee) has been pushing for the games to be advertised more in all countries. Figure 1.1 Increase in participation English Federation of Disability Sport (EFDS) Established in September 1998, the EFDS operates as the national body and charity for disabled people across the UK. Of the 11 million disabled people, only two in ten are active in the UK and they are working to increase this percentage by working closely with partners such as national disability sport organizations and national bodies sports leaders. That being said, the EFDS also covers and assists all c...... middle of paper ...... proper, four major obstacles were stated: transportation, cost of the program, lack of energy and lack of knowledge. regarding the program. In one of the CDC-funded projects, they removed these barriers in several ways: they provided free transportation, did not charge anything for the program, provided door-to-door transportation to reduce the level of fatigue that often occurs to get to the site and develop an accessible, individually designed exercise program in a newly built fitness center. In the first group of people for the 12-week program, their participation was over 85% and none of the participants left the program. These results allow you to see what factors could be eliminated to remove these barriers for people with disabilities. They will continue this research and hope, in time, to implement these changes in all countries..