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For a new world ranking of countries in elite sport—correlation between competition level and bibliometrics in Olympic sports [PDF]
Frontiers in Sports and Active LivingIntroductionThe Olympics remain today the largest multidisciplinary sports competition in the world, and the Olympic Medal Table has been dogmatically followed by media, scholars, and sports administrators, as the mainstream measurement of the countries’
Nadim Nassif, Grégoire Millet
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Coaching unified sports: associations between perceived athlete improvement, barriers, and coach attitudes across five European countries [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyPurposeThis study aimed to examine how perceived athlete improvement, perceived barriers to implementation, and selected coaching characteristics are associated with coaches’ attitudes toward Unified Sports programs.
Maciej Wilski +16 more
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Engagement of students in care delivery for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities through interprofessional education [PDF]
Canadian Medical Education JournalImplication Statement Patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) do not receive quality medical care, resulting in health disparities.
Jane Jomy +10 more
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City & Society, 2020 AbstractExpectations of urban upgrading projects in light of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro oscillated between hopeful prospects and pessimistic anticipation. The different opinions were clearly interwoven with stark socioeconomic inequalities and urban segregation.
Derks, Sanne +2 more
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Developing and implementing a public health co-research program for Special Olympics athletes
Research Involvement and Engagement, 2023 Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities are often the subject of research while rarely being included in formulating research questions, planning studies, and making decisions related to protocols and analyses. In turn, most research
Anna-Mariya Kirova +7 more
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Off Thin Ice: After Decades of Media Abuse, it Took Hollywood to Repair Tonya Harding’s Image and Reputation [PDF]
Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications, 2023 This qualitative study examines Tonya Harding’s experiences after she was excoriated by news media in the 1990s and given an opportunity in 2017 to tell her story through the film, I, Tonya.
Adam Pitluk +2 more
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Clinical Medicine, 2003 Winning an Olympic gold medal represents the pinnacle of achievement in any sporting event, to do so with diabetes is almost miraculous. This report outlines the history and management of Steven Redgrave's diabetes, and describes the physiology associated with the extremes of human endurance and the difficulties that this presents.
Ian W, Gallen +2 more
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Media events in an age of the Web and television: Dayan and Katz revisited
Nordic Journal of Media Studies, 2022 When Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz published their seminal book Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History in 1992, television occupied centre stage, whereas computer networks were only beginning to be used. Since the late 1990s, television and digital
Brügger Niels
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Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2020 The 2014 Sochi Winter Games were the last Winter Olympics where NHL players were allowed to compete. One explanation for prohibiting NHL players from participating in the Winter Olympics is a perceived negative impact on their performance post-Olympics ...
Emily Bremer, John Cairney
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2020 Olympics’ legacy for tobacco control in Japan
Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2019 Tobacco control advocates in Japan face a difficult struggle. Not only can the tobacco industry can easily influence the public and lobby politicians but due the Japanese government holding one-third of the shares of Japan Tobacco (JT), tobacco ...
Chris Rathbone
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