Symbols of paralympics

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There are a number of symbols of Paralympics.

Agito (meaning "I move" in Latin language) is a symbol of movement, used as a part of the Paralympics Symbol (logo) of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), which contains three agitos encircling a single point. This symbol of Paralympics was created by the Scholz & Friends agency and approved in April 2003.

The previous Symbol of Paralympics was based on the traditional Korean decorative component called "tae-geuk", wich constitutes one half of the "taijitu", the symbol of yin and yang. The first such symbol that used five tae-geuks arranged similarly to Olympic Rings was introduced at the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul, Korea.

In addition, each city that hosts the Paralympic Games creates a symbol to represent the event, see articles category:Summer Paralympic Games and category:Winter Paralympic Games for their logos. This symbol incorporates the IPC logo, the name of the event, and the unique symbol to identify the event.

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