US consulate promotes Paralympics as partial of sports tact initiative
KARACHI: Acting Consul General John Warner welcomed around 70 differently-abled athletes as good as their relatives and mentors from Para Sports Pakistan to a Consulate for a Paralympics Sports Diplomacy eventuality on Wednesday, pronounced a press release.
The US consulate press matter pronounced that a athletes participated in seven-a-side football, visually marred cricket, and wheelchair tennis, along with American officers and Marines from a United States Consulate General in Karachi.
The eventuality was organized to symbol a Paralympic 2018 games in Pyeong Chang, Korea function Mar 9-18, 2018.
The eventuality is partial of a Consulate’s array of sports tact events, targeting traditionally disadvantaged groups who face several kinds of discrimination, pronounced a statement.
Acting Consul General Warner said: “Paralympic competition is about distant some-more than usually a sport. It’s not about winning – it’s about competing. It’s not about being a fastest or scoring a many points, it’s about being partial of a group or severe yourself to be your best. These athletes are demonstrating qualities that pronounce to all of us – not as athletes, though as humans. we am impossibly unapproachable of these competitors, they are all winners.”
Mr. Khalid Rehmani, President of Para-Sports Pakistan in his remarks pronounced that “these athletes on wheelchairs and those personification football are genuine heroes. My recommendation to all of them is to keep your face always towards fever and a shadows will tumble behind you. For us all, we contingency contend that a usually incapacity in life is a bad attitude.”
