ZARAGOZA, 10 (SERVIMEDIA | ARAGÓN PRESS)
The Plaza del Pilar in Zaragoza hosted this Saturday a series of activities to celebrate the Day of Inclusive Sports in which people with and without disabilities participated to learn first-hand about the possibilities and challenges offered by adapted sports disciplines.
Dozens of people have put themselves this Saturday, Inclusive Sports Day, in the shoes of those who practice adapted sports and have shown that basketball, football, judo and even climbing are inclusive.
From bowling, to adapted football, basketball in a giant basket or table tennis, they have formed a multi-sports scene in Plaza del Pilar in the capital tomorrow and in which all the participants have ended up winning.
The attendees have put themselves in the shoes of athletes with disabilities thanks to the masks, glasses and wheelchairs that associations such as Special Olympics Aragón or ONCE have offered with the aim of raising awareness about the importance of adapted sports. Thus, some chose to play football with opaque glasses, others to beat their opponent on a tatami and others to experience some vertigo on a climbing wall.
On the other hand, there was the possibility of competing in boccia, a kind of petanque for people with physical disabilities, and which is practiced above all by those in wheelchairs, in which the winner is the one who throws the balls closest to the main which is usually white.
At a good pace and with the occasional stumble, two athletes, father and son, have started running along the track enabled in the Plaza del Pilar. But those 100 meters were not anything and it is that one of them had to act as a guide for the other because he went with his eyes closed. A few meters further on, some little ones became the real ‘Queen’s Gambit’, with several simultaneous chess games in which they gave checkmates with their eyes closed.
