--- title: New Google Doodle Celebrates 2016 Paralympics description: The Rio de Janeiro Paralympics open today and Google has released a new Doodle to celebrate. canonical: https://time.com/4481515/2016-paralympics-google-doodle/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-07T03:39:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:13.866Z og:title: New Google Doodle Celebrates 2016 Paralympics og:description: The games' opening ceremonies take place today in Rio de Janeiro og:url: https://time.com/4481515/2016-paralympics-google-doodle/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf22ebc539cd90df0/6988a50ea988caabac6b9542/screen-shot-2016-09-07-at-11-09-54-am.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: screen-shot-2016-09-07-at-11-09-54-am og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: New Google Doodle Celebrates 2016 Paralympics twitter:description: The games' opening ceremonies take place today in Rio de Janeiro twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf22ebc539cd90df0/6988a50ea988caabac6b9542/screen-shot-2016-09-07-at-11-09-54-am.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # New Google Doodle Celebrates the 2016 Paralympics by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Sep 7, 2016 3:39 AM UTC  Google Doodle for 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics. Google Doodle for 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics.Google by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Sep 7, 2016 3:39 AM UTC The Rio de Janeiro Paralympics open today and Google has released a new [Doodle](https://www.google.com/doodles/paralympics-2016) to celebrate. The games,[ originally designed](https://www.paralympic.org/the-ipc/history-of-the-movement) as a program to assist injured British WWII veterans, have become the world’s largest competitive sporting event for athletes with physical disabilities, drawing 4,500 athletes from 176 countries worldwide. “Today’s Doodle celebrates the opening of the 2016 Summer Paralympics and highlights the incredible feats of athleticism the participants will demonstrate in Rio,” [Google said](https://www.google.com/doodles/paralympics-2016) in a statement. Rio de Janeiro is the first Latin American city to host the Paralympics. The games will take place from Sept. 7 to Sept. 18 and can be live streamed on the[ official Rio 2016 Paralympics](https://www.paralympic.org/video/watch-rio-2016-paralympics-live) website. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4481515/2016-paralympics-google-doodle/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4481515/2016-paralympics-google-doodle/"},"headline":"New Google Doodle Celebrates the 2016 Paralympics","datePublished":"2016-09-07T03:39:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:13.866Z","description":"The games' opening ceremonies take place today in Rio de Janeiro","url":"https://time.com/4481515/2016-paralympics-google-doodle/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","Google","Rio 2016"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf22ebc539cd90df0/6988a50ea988caabac6b9542/screen-shot-2016-09-07-at-11-09-54-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf22ebc539cd90df0/6988a50ea988caabac6b9542/screen-shot-2016-09-07-at-11-09-54-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"screen-shot-2016-09-07-at-11-09-54-am","caption":"Google Doodle for 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics.","creditText":"Google","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4481515/2016-paralympics-google-doodle/","name":"New Google Doodle Celebrates the 2016 Paralympics"}}]}] ```