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national sports festival

The National Sports Festival for the Disabled is the U.S. national championship for athletes with disabilities related to cerebral palsy, stroke, and traumatic brain injury. 

All Festival participants must compete based on their functional classification. The classification system, which is sanctioned by various national disability sports organizations and the National Paralympic Committee, measures the functional level of an athlete in relation to their chosen sporting event in a way that will allow for competition against those with similar degrees of disability. In the case of athletes with cerebral palsy, stroke, or brain injury, disability classes range from CP1, the most severely involved, to CP8, who are very minimally involved. For more information on the National Sports Festival, go to www.nationalsportsfestival.org.

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