fact number one wheelchair basketball is one of the world's oldest Paris Sports and was one of the original eight first Paro Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 photo below a women's tournament was added at Tel Aviv 1968 fact number two sir Philip Craven former IPC president starred for Great Britain at those first world championships and helped lead the team to goal he later competed at five straight paralympic games between 1972 and 1988 fact number three Canada have dominated the most recent men's paralympic tournaments having made the final at four of the last five paralympic games led by Patrick Anderson photo often considered the Sport's greatest ever player the team on parp the gold in 2000 2004 and 2012 back number four players must dribble or pass to move the ball around the court by passing or dribbling perhaps the biggest rule difference to the standup version is the travel rule wheelchair athletes must pass or bounce the ball after every two push on their wheelchair to avoid being penalized for travel fact number five another element unique to wheelchair basketball is that teams have players with a wide variety of sport classes at the same time