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Enhancing Food Safety and Infection Control in Mass Foodservice Operations: Implementing a Foodservice Provision Audit Tool for Sport (FPAT‐S)

Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, Volume 38, Issue 5, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Ensuring food safety and infection control in large‐scale foodservice operations is critical to protecting health in mass feeding environments, including athletes' dining halls and institutional dining settings. Athletes at major competitions are at risk of illness in overcrowded dining areas, especially where foodservice safety standards are ...
Angela C. Dufour, Fiona E. Pelly, Hattie H. Wright, Rachael Thurecht   +3 more
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Keeping Athletes Healthy at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games: Considerations and Illness Prevention Strategies

Frontiers in Physiology, 2019
Keeping athletes healthy will be important for optimal athletic performance at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. Athletes will be exposed to several stressors during the preparatory and competition phases of the Summer Games that have ...
Lauren C. Keaney, Andrew E. Kilding, Fabrice Merien, Fabrice Merien, Deborah K. Dulson   +4 more
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Biology and Management of Male‐Bodied Athletes in Elite Female Sports

Drug Testing and Analysis, Volume 17, Issue 9, Page 1703-1714, September 2025.
Graphical representation of the relationships of transgender and XY DSDF as male‐bodied athletes along the binary dimensions of biological sex. ABSTRACT The physical advantages in elite power sports that allow men to surpass women are derived from the experience of male puberty.
David J. Handelsman, Stéphane Bermon
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Factors influencing sport development among women with disabilities: a case study of a visually impaired Spanish Paralympic woman

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
IntroductionWomen with disabilities may experience particular difficulties in starting and developing in sport, also in the Paralympic context. Although a great deal of research has been conducted with high-performance athletes, relatively few studies ...
Alejandro Barrera-Garcimartín, Áurea Redondo-Fernández, Javier Pérez-Tejero   +2 more
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Psychological characteristics of paralympic athletes’ self-realisation

Social Welfare: Interdisciplinary Approach, 2016
The Paralympic sport has become an important tool for post-traumatic recovery, adaptation, integration and social inclusion of people with disabilities.
Oleg M. Kokun, Oleksandr M. Shamych
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Solo Versus Tandem Cycling Performance: The Whole Is Less Than the Sum of the Parts

European Journal of Sport Science, Volume 25, Issue 9, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Tandem cycling is a Paralympic discipline where two cyclists share one bicycle and requires synchronization and shared effort. In this study, we investigated how individual performance on a solo bicycle compares to tandem cycling. Twelve trained cyclists, that were unfamiliar with tandem cycling, completed a submaximal cycling test, a 30 s ...
Albert Smit, Julia Boschker, Stephan van der Zwaard, Ina Janssen, Thomas W. J. Janssen, Mathijs J. Hofmijster   +5 more
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Resilience, stress and recovery among paralympics athletes during pre-competitive phase

Revista Brasileira de Cineantropometria e Desempenho Humano
This study investigated whether the level of resilience of Paralympic athletics athletes in a pre-competitive period was impacted by sociodemographic and stress variables. 107 Paralympic athletics athletes (92 men and 15 women) with a mean age of 32.25 ±
Gabriel Lucas Morais Freire, Lenamar Fiorese, José Fernando Vila Nova de Moraes, Sherdson Emanoel da Silva Xavier, Daniel Vicentini de Oliveira, José Roberto Andrade do Nascimento Júnior   +5 more
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Empower Our Growth as Athletes: Voices of Swedish Athletes With Intellectual Disability

Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, Volume 38, Issue 5, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Background People with intellectual disability participate in organised sports to a lesser extent than people in general. The aim of this study was to explore the motivation for engaging in sports among athletes using the theoretical framework of sense of belonging.
Johanna Oskarsson, Eva Flygare Wallén, Kim Wickman, Marie Lund Ohlsson   +3 more
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Intellectual disability sport and Paralympic classification

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Kinanthropologica, 2017
Sometimes it might seem that elite disability sport, especially as represented by the Paralympic Movement, is only for athletes with an amputation, or a spinal cord injury, or cerebral palsied or blind athletes, rather than for athletes with an ...
Anna van Dijk, Klára Daďová, Irena Martínková   +2 more
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Prevalence of Bruxism in Athletes: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

Journal of Oral Rehabilitation, Volume 52, Issue 9, Page 1518-1543, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Background Bruxism is a behaviour that can be associated with negative health consequences, which may be exacerbated in athletes due to their exposure to anxiety situations during pre‐competition and competition periods. Objective This study aimed to synthesise available scientific evidence investigating the prevalence of sleep and/or awake ...
Alka Daby Nascimento de Sales, Renata de Albuquerque Cavalcanti Almeida, Anila Thais Lucena Barbosa, Jakelline Cipriano dos Santos Raposo, Jânio Luiz Correia Júnior, Beatriz de Araújo Gusmão, Ricardo Freitas Dias, Fabiana de Godoy   +7 more
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