On the eve of 200 days to go to the London 2012 Paralympic Games, the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) and the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) have announced the completion of Eton Manor on the Olympic Park, the venue for Wheelchair Tennis during the Paralympic Games.
In just 200 days time, 4,200 athletes from over 140 countries will be gathering for the largest Paralympic Games ever – bringing the Games back to the country that gave birth to the Paralympic movement in 1948, when Dr Ludwig Guttmann organised a wheelchair archery competition at Stoke Mandeville hospital for 16 World War II soldiers.
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