In 2000, the decision to exclude people with intellectual disabilities (ID) was made after the Spanish basketball team allowed players without ID to participate in the Paralympics.
17 years later, the Swedish Paralympic Committee submitted a motion to the International Paralympic Committee – and has since worked together with other Nordic countries to influence the decision.
Now a change may be on the way.
At the International Paralympic Committee's General Assembly in Seoul in September, a majority voted in favor of Sweden's motion "to re-include athletes with IF in the Paralympic Winter Games by 2030 at the latest," the Swedish Paralympic Committee writes in a press release.
"Now the next step begins - to create the right conditions for the target group to be able to compete at the elite level," says Sweden's chairman Åsa Llinares Norlin in a press release.
A work that will be carried out together with the International Paralympic Committee and the International Ski and Snowboard Federation, to ensure the right conditions for the Paralympics in France in 2030.
