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In 2012 London will host the Olympic Games for the third time. It will also mark the return of the Paralympic Games to the country of its birth.

In 1948, Dr Ludwig Guttmann organised a sports competition for World War II veterans
with spinal injuries. Based in Stoke Mandeville hospital in England, it coincided with the
Opening Ceremony of the London 1948 Games. Four years later, athletes from the
Netherlands joined in and the international movement was born.

The RYA squad often come to Chichester for regular fitness assessments and general sports science input and Saskia Clark studied Sport, Exercise & Health Sciences at Chichester.