Basketball is a widely followed sport globally, and many may not realize that it is also played by physically challenged athletes.,Currently, wheelchair basketball is played in over 100 countries, with teams from nations like France, the USA, and Great Britain participating in the sport at the Paris Paralympic Games 2024.,Originally, wheelchair basketball was developed to aid in the rehabilitation of injured soldiers and to provide them with a means to alleviate stress.,
The sport became known as wheelchair basketball due to the necessity for physically challenged athletes to use wheelchairs to move across the court.,The International Wheelchair Basketball Federation was established, and it is noted that the sport was first played in 1945 between two hospitals in the United States.,According to the International Paralympic Committee, wheelchair basketball emerged around 1946 in the USA, created by injured servicemen from World War II, many of whom were former able-bodied players seeking to continue participating in the game.,
The simple adaptations and slight rule variations for people in wheelchairs allowed the sport to expand across the US and eventually to other parts of the world.,Wheelchair basketball was included in the Paralympic Games for the first time in 1960 in Rome, where the United States of America secured two gold medals in the sport among the total of eight sports featured in the games' inaugural edition.
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