Damascus-SANA
The Wounded Al-Watan Sports Games will start tomorrow, with the participation of about 100 total disabled people in various sports, in Al-Assad Sports City in Lattakia and will last for five days with Arab and international participation.
The Wounded Al-Watan Project stated in a news release on its official Facebook page that the wounded participants from the Syrian Arab Army, the Internal Security Forces and the allied forces will compete in swimming, table tennis, basketball, badminton, athletics and physical strength games, along with participants from the Russian Federation and Iraq.
He revealed that the wounded participants in the course underwent qualitative training for a month and a half under the supervision of specialized coaches from the General Sports Federation to develop their skills and motivate their unlimited capabilities to compete in competitions away from everything that hinders their ambitions. Their first opponent is disability and their ultimate goal is to challenge injury.
The Wounded Al-Watan project aims from this course to enhance the physical, sensory and motor ability of the wounded, which includes medical care such as physiotherapy, providing medicines and performing surgical operations, on the grounds that sports are life and treatment as well.
The project hopes that the sports activities through which the injured person participates in this tournament will turn into an opportunity and a career path, and lead the wounded winners and holders of advanced positions to participate in local and international competitions or go to training and achieve a work project.
The wounded army, auxiliary forces, and internal security forces who were injured during the battles to defend the homeland will participate in the Games, who have been completely disabled, whose injuries varied between amputations and paralysis and those who have lost sight, and will compete with the help of prosthetic limbs sitting or standing in individual and group games.
Mohammed Al-Khater