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The motto was adopted along with the emblem of three Agitos, the red, blue and green curved shapes that sweep around a central point; agito is Latin for I move, and together the symbol and the motto stand for movement and for athletes converging from every direction.

The International Paralympic Committee was founded in 1989 as the world governing body of the movement, and it has been based at Bonn since then; it organises the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games and recognises the national Paralympic committees.

He was a neurologist who had left Germany for England and was put in charge of a spinal injuries unit at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, where he used sport as part of the treatment of soldiers paralysed in the Second World War; on 29 July 1948, the opening day of the…

The Games held at Rome in 1960, with about four hundred athletes from twenty-three countries, are recognised as the first Paralympic Games, and the event has been held every four years since.

Each target face has ten rings and the innermost ring scores 10 points, so 72 arrows all in the 10 ring give 72 multiplied by 10, that is 720 points.

A compound archer draws and looses the string with a hand held mechanical release, and may also use a magnifying scope and a peep sight set in the string.

He won the compound individual gold at the 2014 Asian Games held at Incheon in South Korea, one of India's landmark results in the compound bow, and has since been a fixture of the compound team that wins Asian Games and World Cup team medals.

Limba Ram comes from a tribal family of the Udaipur region of southern Rajasthan and was India's best known archer of the early 1990s, shooting at three Olympic Games and equalling a world record at a continental event.

The archer from West Bengal won the women's recurve gold at the 2007 Archery World Cup Final in Dubai, the first World Cup Final title won by an Indian archer, and she was honoured with the Arjuna Award.

Recurve individual matches are shot in sets of three arrows. The archer with the higher total in a set takes 2 set points, a tied set gives 1 set point to each, and the first archer to reach 6 set points wins the match.

Archery is Bhutan's national sport and its village and festival contests, shot at long distances with small wooden targets and their own customs, are a part of national life.

The compound bow uses cams and cables that hold most of the draw weight for the archer, a magnifying scope and a mechanical release aid, so scores are far higher than with a recurve.

The full target face used at 70 metres measures 122 centimetres across and carries ten concentric scoring rings, the innermost worth 10 points and the outermost worth 1.

All Olympic recurve events, individual, team and mixed team, are shot at 70 metres at a target face of 122 centimetres.

Archery was part of the 1900 Paris Olympics and a few Games after it, but disappeared from the programme after 1920 because the rules varied from country to country.

It was founded in 1931 as the Federation Internationale de Tir a l'Arc, known by the short form FITA, and adopted the name World Archery in 2011.

FIFA was founded in 1904 and has long had its headquarters at Zurich in Switzerland, from where it organises the World Cup and governs the national federations.

The Beighton Cup has been played at Kolkata since the closing years of the nineteenth century and is among the oldest field hockey tournaments anywhere, older than most international competitions in the game, and the great teams and players of Indian hockey have all passed through it.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India was formed in 1928 and India played its first Test match four years later, in 1932.

The Davis Cup is the international team competition for men in lawn tennis, played between countries in ties spread over a season, and the corresponding competition for women is now called the Billie Jean King Cup.