Editing 1996 Summer Paralympics (section)

== Atlanta aftermath ==

Flaming and Shepherd believes until today that Samaranch and others must have heard the key message of these struggles. "After Atlanta, the IOC said it would not accept an Olympic bid unless it also made provisions for the Paralympic Games," Fleming said. "The IOC leadership essentially said, 'The Paralympic movement is not going away, especially after Atlanta…'and this was already happening, a few months after the closing of the Atlanta Games, the International Olympic Committee announced that it had changed the rules of the application process and starting from the [[2000 Summer Olympics]] would not accept a bid if the city filed a bid without disclosing its plans for the Paralympic Games. Following this difficult process, when bidding for the Olympic Games between 1991 and 1993, the eventual winner - the Australian city of [[Sydney]] - did not originally guarantee that the city wanted to host the Paralympics. But during the process, they changed their  attitudes and promised that apart the two events had the possibility to be organized by two different parties, they would give the same treatment to all the participants and public who went to go to Australia for the two events. This also encompassed planning, financing, security, logistics, marketing and ticket sales. This joint planning give the opportunity to share all the functions and made until that Games, won the title of "the best ever" until that date.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sydney 2000 Paralympic Summer Games|publisher= Stock Mandeville Paralympic Heritage |date=April 2022 |url=https://www.paralympicheritage.org.uk/sydney-2000-paralympic-summer-games|access-date=2022-04-27 }}</ref>

The Atlanta 1996 Summer Paralympic Games budget troubles led the IOC to take and study some changes on their management. In the first action held in 1993, IOC and IPC signed a joint protocol of strategic partnership and they undertook to include topics related to the Olympic and Paralympic Games in the evaluation questionnaires that would be sent to the cities interested in the [[2002 Winter Olympics]] and the [[2004 Summer Olympics]]. Occasionally, another American city [[Salt Lake City]] would be elected to host the [[2002 Winter Olympics]]. In a different way that held in Atlanta, as they assumed the responsibility to host the [[2002 Winter Paralympics]] if they won. While of the 11 cities applying for the 2004 Games, 6 had also chosen the joint management model.<ref>{{cite web |title=Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Paralympics |publisher= Stock Mandeville Paralympic Heritage |date=May 2022 |url=https://www.paralympicheritage.org.uk/salt-lake-city-2002-paralympic-winter-games|access-date=2022-05-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Athens 2004 Summer Paralympics |publisher= Stock Mandeville Paralympic Heritage |date=May 2022 |url=https://www.paralympicheritage.org.uk/athens-2004-paralympic-summer-games|access-date=2022-05-16}}</ref>

Five years later, and after the large and unprecedented success of the [[1998 Winter Paralympics]] and the [[2000 Summer Paralympics]] in 2001, after a change at the [[Olympic Charter]], the International Paralympic Committee became an effective collaborator of the International Olympic Committee, and its president became a compulsory member of the IOC. With that, a cooperation agreement was signed informally called "One city, two events" and from then on, the same city and the same Organizing Committee would be responsible for the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games of the same year, and this concept started to be used during the process that led [[Beijing]] to win the process to host the [[2008 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Beijing 2008 Summer Paralympics |publisher= Stock Mandeville Paralympic Heritage |date=May 2022 |url=https://www.paralympicheritage.org.uk/beijing-2008-paralympic-summer-games|access-date=2022-05-16}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/10-olympic-games-bankrupted-host-countries9.htm|title=10 Olympic Games That Nearly Bankrupted Their Host Countries|date=2014-01-19|access-date=2022-05-16}}</ref>