TOWARDS JUSTICE – Emmeline Aglipay-Villar – The Philippine Star November 30, 2021 | 12:00am The first Paralympic games were held in 1960, in Rome, Italy, although they had been occurring since 1948 under another name. Since 1998, the Paralympics have used the same facilities as the Olympic Games, and in 2001 the International Olympic Committee made it official that every city that bids to host the Olympics also bids to hold the Paralympics in tandem that same year. The goal was likely to encourage a similar treatment of the Paralympics as its more illustrious sibling. In practice, that hasn’t …