Basketball remains one of the most followed sports in the world, but not many are aware that the sport is also played by physically challenged athletes.
In fact, more than more than 100 countries play wheelchair basketball at the moment, with teams like France, the USA, Great Britain, etc.
participating in the sport at the Paris Paralympic Games 2024. The wheelchair basketball was designed at first to help rehabilitate wounded soldiers and help them release stress.
Since the physically challenged athletes had to use wheelchairs to travel across the court, the sport started to be called wheelchair basketball.
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