Saturday’s Google Doodle celebrates the 122nd birthday of Ludwig Guttmann, a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who is considered the founder of the Paralympic movement. Born in Tost, Germany in 1899, ...

At the conclusion of World War II, the British government commissioned Dr. Ludwig Guttmann to lead the first ever medical facility dedicated to the care of paraplegics. At the time, conventional ...

Ludwig Guttmann had planned carefully for July 29, 1948. That day, King George VI opened the London Olympics at Wembley Stadium, an occasion delayed for years by World War II. An hour to the northwest ...

PARIS, Nov 10 (Reuters) - The 2024 Paralympics torch relay will start from Stoke Mandeville, Britain, where the event was first imagined by neurologist Ludwig Guttmann in 1948, organisers said on ...

The playing fields of Stoke Mandeville, Aylesbury, England, were cleared last week for a competition called the Paralympics, and a crowd of 3,000 watched teams from eight nations fight out the two-day ...