Football 7-a-side at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Football 7-a-side at the 2008 Summer Paralympics 7-a-side football at the 2008 Summer Paralympics was held at the Olympic Green Hockey Field from September 8 to September 16. One event was contested, a men's team competition. The sport of 7-a-side football is for people with cerebral palsy; athletes classified as CP5 through CP8 may take part. The classification system grades player by the extent of their disability, with lower numbers corresponding to more severe impairment. At least one CP5 or CP6 player, and no more than three CP8 players, may be on the field at a given time. Eight teams
Sport by the Whole Wide World From the Bottom of the Heart" were awarded people who showed courage and heroism while rescuing passengers of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, which had more than 100 Russian tourists on board. They are: Deputy Mayor of Isola del Giglio Mario Pellegrini and Isola del Giglio's Port Official Giovanni Rossi. The next upcoming festival is to be held in Taganrog on August 31, 2013. Among the famous presenters of the awards in 2012 were: Nikolai Valuev, Natascha Ragosina, Svetlana Zhurova, Riccardo Fogli, Sergei Trofimov, Uliana Donskova, Tatiana Gorbunova. Sport by the Whole Wide World Sport by the Whole Wide World