IPC Ice Hockey B Pool World Championships
10-16 March

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Tokyo 1964

1964 Tokyo - A truly pioneering Paralympic Games

'So, we explained that in a way it was the Olympics for Paraplegia. Then one reporter responded 'Well, then we can simplify it to Paralympic’. The word somehow became popular not only with reporters but with us as well, and it became an official nickname.'