Google has honoured Ludwig Guttmann in their latest Google Doodle.
The search engine updated their famous Doodle to honour the Paralympic movement founder, with a Doodle on what would be his 122nd birthday on Saturday, July 3rd.
The site honours the "Father of the Paralympic Movement, Guttmann was the medical pioneer who created the Paralympic Games"
Trost-born Guttmann organised an archery competition for wheelchair users, which later came to be known as the "Stoke Mandeville Games". These games later evolved into the Paralympic Games.
In 1960 the Games went international resulting in around 400 athletes with disabilities from across the world competing.
The Jewish doctor arrived in the UK as a refugee having fled Nazi Germany just before the Second World War.
Guttmann suffered a heart attack in October 1979 and died on March 18, 1980, aged 80.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here