Surely every athlete who starts taking up sports aims to participate in the Olympic Games. The largest sports event in the world, taking place every 4 years, can turn into a great joy as well as into great sadness. All the above applies also to the disabled athletes.

In the last few years (or in the last decade) disabled sport has developed more than anyone could have imagined. All that matters nowadays are the results. Why the results? Long before one can perform at the Games, high qualification standards are set for the athlete to be even considered as a national team member, and that does not necessarily qualify them for the Paralympic delegation. Their qualification can depend on centimetres or hundredths of a second. Qualification requirements in team sports are clear: the team has to be successful at a qualification tournament or take a required place at an international competition, e.g. at the European or World Championships. But things are much harsher in the so called individual sports.

The beginnings of the NPC Slovenia are closely linked to the sports activities of war veterans with disabilities. The Federation of War Veterans with Disabilities (ZVVI) set up a sports committee, which started to manage in an organised way sports for all people with disability and later also competitive forms of sports.