Do you know Paralympics Emblem, Agitos? The Paralympics are not well known, so you may not know much about it. Paralympic is an international multi-sport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities. At Tokyo Summer Paralympics, the Korea team took 40th place at total medal ranking with 2 gold medals, 10 silver medals, and 12 bronze medals.
There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games. Now, I'll tell you about Agitos. Agitos is a Paralympic Emblem. The agito ("I move" in Latin) is a symbol of movement in the shape of an asymmetrical crescent.
The first designated Paralympic logo was created for the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul and based on a traditional Korean decorative component called a "pa." Two of which make up the Taegeuk symbol at the center of the flag of South Korea. The first Paralympic flag used five pa arranged similarly to the Olympic rings and colored identically.
On October 6, 1990, the International Coordinating Committee of World Sports Organizations for the Disabled (ICC) was informed that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) requested the five-pa symbol be altered. The IOC's marketing department considered it too similar to the Olympic rings. In November 1991, the IPC members voted against the new symbol, retaining the five-pa symbol. However, the IOC made clear that it would refuse further collaboration with the IPC if the five-pa symbol remained in place. Thesecond Paralympic symbol (1994–2004) used three pa.
In March 1992, the Paralympic symbol was changed to a version using only three pa. This was not fully adopted until after the 1994 Winter Paralympics in Lillehammer, Norway, since the Lillehammer Paralympic Organizing Committee had by then already started a marketing program based on the five-pa version. The three-pa version remained in place from the close of the Lillehammer Games through the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece.
I didn't know that the Paralympic Emblem, Agitos, was related to South Korea! Now, I'm looking forward to Beijing Winter Paralympics!