Les Grosses Têtes: AH OUAIS ? - Pourquoi la choucroute est-elle à l'origine des Jeux Paralympiques ?

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Hi, it's Florian Gazan. In a minute, you will know why the choucroute is the origin of Paralympic games.

Ah, yeah?

Yeah, but nothing to do with the plot. The choucroute is just the nickname that was given to the inventor of these games,

Dr. Ludwig Gutsmann, by his British homologues when he arrived on English soil after leaving Nazi Germany.

You have to say that he took it for an illuminate, the one who was put in the lead, to heal the invalid victims of a lesion of the vertebral column.

At the time, we estimate that it is impossible.

By the way, when soldiers are touched by the column and paralyzed by the legs, we repatriate them into semi-circles,

then shoot them to the morphine before beating them head to toe.

We then throw them on a bed where they usually end up dying from an infection.

Ah, yeah.

Yeah, but Dr. Gutsmann can't solve it.

Installed in 1940 at the Manneville Stock Institute in the north of London,

this brilliant surgeon puts in place his method, which goes through the movement.

To focus the patients on what they can do, rather than on what they can't do anymore.

And move to avoid scars and infections.

Paralyzed people do manual activities such as menuisery and above all based on the method of Dr. Gutsmann,

sports, rolling polo, basketball, arch shooting.

The results are there.

Compared to the Paralyzed of War 14-18, the life expectancy of patients is multiplied by 10.

Ah, yeah?

Yeah.

And to get to know this method, Dr. Gutsmann then had an idea.

In 1948, thousands of days from the opening of the Gios de Londres,

he organizes a competition with his patients.

Twelve veterans of war and two women fight in an arch shooting test and netball,

a basketball derivor.

He comes to create the Paralympic Games.

Para for Paraplegic, which will become para, the molatin to say parallel, on the other hand.

As soon as he has done the hands and feet, he manages to convince the CIO in 1960 for the Gios of Rome

to integrate his games now open to all the handicaps.

With a motto that sums up the revolutionary method of Dr. Gutsmann, the spirit in motion.

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