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Ableton on Air has been seen in the following publications, Park Chester Times, WWW, this is the Bronx.com, New York Power Online Newspaper, Muslim Community Report, WWW.H.com and the Montpelier Bridge. Ableton on Air is part of the following organizations, the National Academy of Television, Arts and Sciences, Boston, New England Chapter and the Society of Professional Journalists. Welcome to this edition of Ableton on Air, the one and only program that focuses on the needs, concerns and achievements of the different label. I'm your host Lauren Seiler. I'm Lauren Seiler. And on this special sports edition of Ableton on Air. We're going to talk about the Paralympics, the Paralympic Games today. But before we do that, we would like to say special thanks to Washington County Mental Health, our sponsor, Green Mountain Support Services and many, many, many others including the support from the Association for the Blind and Visually Imperative Vermont, the Division for the Blind and Visually Imperative Vermont, New York Power Online Newspaper, Muslim Community Report, Muslim Media Corporation and many, many, many others including Yachad of New York and New England where everyone belongs and many others. Again, let's talk about the Paralympic Games. You know, the games happen every four or five years, but the Paralympics were a little bit different than the Special Olympics. The Special Olympics was started by Eunice Kennedy Shriver in the 1960s. These games were on, started on July 29th, 1948, the day of the opening ceremonies of the London 1948 Paralympics Games started by Dr. Gutman who organized the first competition for wheelchair athletes, which he named after the Stoke Manville Games, M-A-N-D-E-V-I-L-L-E Games, a milestone in Paralympic history. Anything you want to say before we continue? I'll continue with that. According to the Stoke Manville Games later became the Paralympic Games which took place in Rome, Italy in 1960 featuring at the time 400 athletes from 23 countries. Since then they have taken place every four years. In 1976, the first Olympic Games in Paralympic history was held in Sweden as well as summer games have taken place every four years and included the Paralympics opening ceremony and the Paralympics closing ceremony. Since then the summer games of Seoul, Korea in 1988 and the Winter Games in Albertville, France in 1992. The Games have taken part in some cities and venues as the Olympics due to agreement between the International Paralympic Committee and the IOC. According to this website if you would like to find out more information about the Paralympics you can go to www.paralympic.org. Paralympic is spelled P-A-R-A-L-Y-M-P-I-C.org So let's go down here. So in 2028 it's going to be held in Los Angeles, California. In 2026 it's going to be held in Malano, Cortina which is in Italy I think. 2024 is going to be held in Paris. Beijing is 2022. Tokyo was in 2020. Pyo Zhang was in 2018. Rio was 2016 and going down the list. London was in 2012. Vancouver was 2010. When you go to the website including in 1996 it was in Atlanta, Georgia. So those are the games and they definitely have more here. And then this website, the International Paralympic Committee. As you go across the top and let me turn it on if I can turn it around here. We can probably get a screenshot later of this. As you go across the top of this website you can learn more about the different sports. So let me click there. So they have Paralympic, Alpine skiing, archery, different athletics including badminton, botchy ball, canoe, cycling, dance, horse racing or equestrian things with sport. Hold on. Let me go down here. How do you participate in this sport? Rome, Beijing, China, Japan, Greece, different ones. Did you participate? That's a good question. I could find it out. But let me finish the sport. So we had canoe, cycling, dance, horse events, football, goal ball, judo, skiing, ice hockey, powerlifting, rowing, volleyball, snowboarding, etc. Wheelchair basketball, fencing, triathlon. Triathlon is interesting because they're basically like javelin throws and different things and also running and cycling. Now let's go here. The ones to watch this year, well from 2020 on, they have swimming especially. Now the ones to watch from the United States is Alicia Sealy and then you also have from Japan. I can't pronounce these names but if you want to find out more about the players, you can go to Paralympic.org. I can double check that. That's interesting. Has Israel participated? Paralympics. Israel is the only nation to have hosted the Paralympic Games but not the... Oh yes. Israel is the only nation to have hosted the Paralympic Games but not the Olympic Games. At the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, the Israelis won a total of 13 medals of which four were gold. So according to Wikipedia, let's click here. Israel competed in the Paralympic Games in 1960. Actually, let me go up. In the Summer Games in Rome, Italy. In a total Israel has one of 123 gold medals at the Summer Paralympic Games. The most successful Israeli Paralympian was Zipporah Rubin Rosenbaum who between 1964 and 1988 won 30 medals at the Paralympic Games which 15 were gold. Second successful Israeli Paralympian was Yuri Bergman, URI Bergman. Between 1976 and 1988 won 14 medals at the Paralympic Games and 12 were gold. Tel Aviv was the whole city of the 1968 Summer Paralympic Games which Israel finished third on the medal chart with 62 medals and 18 were gold. Israel was the only nation to have hosted the Paralympic but not the regular Olympic Games. In 2004, the Summer Paralympic Games in Athens, Israel won a total of 13 medals, four were gold. A person by the name of Isaac Marazotov won three medals and two were gold. And then there was Karen Libowitz won four medals of which one was gold in swimming. Now, according to the chart here and it's pretty extensive, there we go, pretty extensive. Israel, let me go down here, there we go. 1968, 18 were gold, 21 were silver, 23 were bronze, 62 total and they ranked third. United States and Britain in 1984, 11 were gold, this is Paralympics. 21 were silver, 12 were bronze, a total of 44 and ranked 19 between Britain and United States. And the list goes on. In 2012, though, one gold, two silver, five bronze for a total of eight and they ranked 45 at the time. Now, according to Special Olympics, let me tell you about Paralympics. Paralympics, if you're missing an arm and leg or anything, you can participate. But according to Special Olympics, I'm bringing you up with Special Olympics because their motto is, let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt. Personally, I think everybody in Paralympics or any Olympics should get a medal no matter what. But you know, since we are on the topic, Special Olympics, okay, well, I can bring that up, Special Olympics Vermont, since we are on the topic. Alright, Special Olympics Vermont due to COVID, let's go here. Okay, well, Special Olympics Vermont, if you want more information on their programs, you can go to www.SpecialOlympicsVermont.org. But their upcoming events, according here, Monday, September 13th, Special Olympics has at home movement challenge. For 2021, September 18th, they will be, which is on a Saturday, they will be in three locations. So we can go to that and not to confuse people here. Yeah, well, okay, well, if anybody does go, September 18th and 19th is September. Special Olympics Vermont is excited to be hosting the 2021 Regional Fall Games. They can't wait to see you. They will be in three fall sports, track and field, bachi and golf. The following dates, the Special Olympics of Vermont will be participating. September 18th, Saturday, golf events. September 18th, on Saturday, also will be the Fall Games, track and field and bachi. Sunday, September 19th, will be track and field and bachi event. Now, Special Olympics Vermont is determining which delegations will be competing in which areas. For more information on all of this and all these events, you can go to www.SpecialOlympicsVermont.org. www.SpecialOlympicsVermont.org. www.SpecialOlympicsVermont.org. You know, let me just say this. Participating in any Olympic sport and games is real important for social interaction for people with disabilities. You know, to get everybody out of the house, you know, because during COVID, it's extremely, it was extremely hard and it's still getting extremely hard for people just to be in the house because it becomes problematic with someone's mental health. So it's extremely important to get out and really participate. Those websites, again, that we talked about today is the Paralympics, which we will show a video. By the way, since we said that, let's take a look at video of the Paralympics. Let's take a look at this. Now, with that said, we would like to thank Green Mountain Support Services, Washington County Mental Health, and many, many, many others, including the partnership with the Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired of Vermont, the Muslim Media Corporation, and many others including Yachad, New York, and New England. Get out there, get the Olympic gold, and enjoy the rest of the summer. I'm Lauren Seiler. The sponsors for Ableton on Air include Green Mountain Support Services, empowering people with disabilities to live home in the community. Washington County Mental Health, where hope and support comes together. Media sponsors for Ableton on Air include Park Chester Times, Muslim Community Report, WWW, this is the Bronx.info, Associated Press Media Editors, New York Parrot Online Newspaper, U.S. Press Corps Domestic and International, Anchor FM, and Spotify. 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