Paralympic Flame Lit Ahead Of Opening Ceremony

Disabled athletes lit the Paralympic flame in Stoke Mandeville in southern England late on August 28, signaling the 24-hour countdown to the start of this year's event. It was at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in 1948 that a German Jewish neurologist, Ludwig Guttmann, organized the first recognized sporting events for people with disabilities, 12 years before the inaugural Paralympics in Rome. (AFP video)