The Paralympic Sports School, which promotes the initiation of children and adolescents in up to 15 paralympic modalities, resumed activities after school holidays this week. The project is free and occurs at the Paralympic Training Center, which is at 11.5 kilometer of the Imigrantes Highway, in the south of São Paulo.
Registration for the project, nicknamed Paralympic school, are free and can be made at this link, on the Brazilian Paralympic Committee (CPB) website. Participants must have ID, CPF, medical report on the disability, medical certificate of aptitude for scanned sports and school report. The entity has the email [email protected] for those looking for more information.
The school serves on Mondays and Wednesdays and Tuesdays and Thursdays, at two times: from 14h to 15h30 and from 16h to 17h30. Young people receive uniform and snack during the period they are in the Paralympic CT. The CPB also provides transportation in strategic locations in the metropolitan region of São Paulo.
The project offers 15 modalities that make up the Paralympic Games program: Athletics, Badminton, Bocce, Blind Football, Goalball, Driver, Judo, Swimming, Paraesgrimin (also called wheelchair fencing), wheelchair rugby, wheelchair tennis, archery, triathlon and seated volleyball. Currently, 477 children with physical, visual and intellectual disabilities are attended.
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Among the young people presented to the Paralympic sport at Escolinha, which began in 2018, one has already reached the Paralympics. Last year, Maranhão André Martins, from Bocha, was at Paris Games in France. Another highlight is the São Paulo Alessandra Oliveira, gold at the Parapan American Games of Santiago, Chile, 100 meters S4-sick-sick (which is intermediate for swimmers with physical-motor disabilities) and which was summoned to the Singapore World Cup next September.
