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The World Organization Volleyball for Disabled (WOVD) is an international organization that is for people with physical disbalities, WOVD is affliated with the International Paralympic Committee(IPC). The World Organization Volleyball for Disabled was established in 1951 and was part of the International Sports Organization for Diabled(ISOD). In 1992 the WOVD became it's own seperate Organization in Barcelona. The WOVD Headquarters were also established in Netherlands.[1]
History
As volleyball caught on and became a popular sport and the Olympics became big, the paralympic games started coming into play. The first paralympic games were played in 1960 in Rome immediately after the Olympic Games. By 1976, amputees started participating in the paralympics. [2] [3]
Origin
The game of Volleyball was created by William G. Morgan in 1895. When Morgan created the game of volleyball it ws called Minonette. The game of volleyball was not offically called volleyball until 1896 and was two seperate word. As the years went on it later became one word, and then a special ball was designed in 1900. 64 years later in 1964 Men's and Women's volleyball were introduced as an Olympic sport. Later in 1884 the Men's team won it's first Olympic medal and later men's beach volleyball was added as an Olympic sport in 1996. [4]