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What is the difference between Paralympics and the Olympic sport?
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Firstly, the Special Olympics
is for athletes with intellectual disabilities, while theParalympics
is predominantly for competitors with physical disabilities, though it increasingly has events for athletes with intellectual impairments also.
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