Paralympic Winter Games: Own the podium!

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1. What does the prefix "para" in the word "paralympic" mean today?
2. In the Paralympic Games, adapted sports are adaptations of traditional Olympic sports. What is a synonym for "adapted sport"?
3. Which of these terms is a synonym for "Paralympic Nordic skiing"?
4. Complete the following statement: The six official sports of the Paralympic Winter Games are wheelchair curling, the Paralympic biathlon, Paralympic cross-country skiing, Paralympic downhill skiing and Paralympic Placeholder for the answer.
5. In Paralympic cross-country skiing, athletes in the Sitting category are seated on a Placeholder for the answer, a chair mounted on skis.
6. In all ski events, whether the event is cross-country skiing, the Paralympic biathlon or downhill skiing, all athletes with a visual impairment are assisted by a "guide." What kind of a guide do we mean?
7. In Paralympic downhill skiing, some one-legged athletes hurtle down the slopes at more than 120 km/h. They are called Placeholder for the answer.
8. Sit-skiers and one-legged athletes skiing without a prosthesis use stabilizers. What is a synonym for the term "stabilizers"?
9. A delivery stick is a pole used by a curler to throw the stone without having to bend over or grasp the stone by its handle. Which of the following is a synonym for "delivery stick"?
10. Since ski de fond is the French term for "cross-country skiing," the French term fondeur means "cross-country skier" in English. True or false?
  
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