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Mohan Natarajan from Pollachi, Coimbatore, was precise excited to spot his 12-year-old girl instrumentality portion successful the roller-skating contention astatine the Asia Pacific Down Syndrome Federation (APDSF) games, 2026, connected Thursday successful Chennai.
The games, organised successful relation with Special Olympics Bharat, are aimed astatine bringing unneurotic athletes with Down Syndrome from crossed the Asia Pacific portion to observe ability, determination and the tone of sports. Participants took portion successful competitory sports specified arsenic skating, swimming, running, walking, changeable enactment among others.
Noting that the inclusion of sports successful children with disabilities has been an important addition, Mr. Mohan said, “The main crushed is fitness, arsenic children with Down Syndrome person little immunity levels and thin to enactment connected weight. Further, sports supply them a level for socialising and improving connection arsenic they conscionable radical from each walks of life. Lastly, we privation our kid to radiance and excel successful nine too.”
The archetypal variation of the two-day planetary games, saw the information of implicit 30 children from overseas from countries specified arsenic China, New Zealand among others, and 200 children from India.
Speaking astir the initiative, Rekha Ramachandran, typical of the Indian contingent, said that determination are age-wise categories and wrong that, determination are categories based connected abilities. “Through games, there’s truthful overmuch communication, socialising and discipline. When you look astatine a idiosyncratic with Down Syndrome, isolated from the other chromosome, determination is hypotonia (low musculus tone). They bash person limitations, but don’t justice them done those limitations,” she said.
Wishing the champion to the participants, Member Secretary, Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu Meghanatha Reddy said, “Every kid present is simply a champion. The precise information that you person shown up to enactment makes you one.”
