Could you draw the Paralympic logo from memory right now Well, you’d be forgiven if you can’t. Unlike the rings of the modern Olympic Games which have only been tweaked twice since 1896, the logo of the Paralympic Games has been altered four times, including as recently as 2019.
Adam Basil is a former Australian Olympic sprinter and is currently the Athletics Performance Advisor at the Victorian Institute of Sport.
The performance of our Olympic and Paralympic teams in Athens was exceptional.
VIS Sport Scientist and Shooting Australia Sports Medicine Coordinator at the time, Nick Sanders, was part of the support group which went to Athens with the Olympic Shooting team in 2004.