ParalÃmpicos games
Visa is proud of being sponsoring the world-wide one of the next Games ParalÃmpicos de Invierno that will be celebrated in Vancouver, Canada, between the 12 and the 21 of March of 2010, during which will be, in addition, the official service of payments and the exclusive card. This sponsorship is a very important part of the Olympic Visa commitment. Vancouver 2010 will be the fifth ParalÃmpicos Games sponsored by Visa, after the celebrated ones in Salt Lake City 2002, Athens 2004, Turin 2006 and Peking 2008.
The ParalÃmpicos Games (the area code “forâ€? drift of “parallel to the Olympic Gamesâ€?) are a sport event of elite for athletes with incapacity. These are men and women who, like the rest of athletes, compete to win, that is reason why the Games put of relief their profits and not their incapacity.
Provoking interest by the ParalÃmpico Movement, Visa helps to facilitate a greater understanding of the challenges which the people face incapacity. Visa not only has been first sponsoring the Olympic one in becoming sponsoring Olympic world-wide, but it has been first in signing an agreement with the ParalÃmpico Committee the International to become his official supplier of payments.
The sponsorship of the ParalÃmpicos Games allows Visa to arrive at more than 500 million people with incapacity in the world and at its families with an integration message. Entering into dialog and informing about products and services Visa, developing new designed technologies specifically for the needs of the disabled ones, extending the card emission and creating affinity with their 20,000 financial organizations partners, Visa provide to this community more accessibility and possibility of election in their payments.
Visa has supported different bunds from paralÃmpicos sports anywhere in the world from the ParalÃmpicos Games of 1996 and has sponsored twice the ParalÃmpico Congress. In 1998 Visa it supported the Games ParalÃmpicos de Invierno de Nagano, through support of marketing and to the organization. This collaboration included to provide a special network of automatic tellers for athletes and visitors, services online of attention to the client for the card holders Visa and to extend the number of points of acceptance in commerce in the facilities and you soothe of the Games.
The Visa implication through its technology, experience, products and personnel is fundamental for the celebration of the ParalÃmpicos Games. Visa also tries to use its mark, widely known and respected, to approach the world-wide hearing the profits of the paralÃmpicos athletes.
The Visa sponsorship already has originated front page special Web,
www.visaparalympics.com, completely accessible for people with problems of vision, hearing and mobility. This Web site is for the general public, but it especially contains information sent to the athletes with incapacity, his friendly and families.
As much in Athens as in Turin or Peking, Visa donated hundreds of entrances and you happen so that young and adolescent with incapacity and its families they could attend the tests. Visa also organized a day of direction in each of these editions of the Games to put in direct bonding to the paralÃmpicos athletes with those children with incapacity. The athletes were able to inspire and to animate to the children speaking with them and demonstrating their sport skill to him.
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