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Human resources of the China Olympic volunteer program "Beijing 2022"

Наука. Культура. Общество, 2022
The article presents the results of an online survey conducted among the volunteers of the Olympic and/or Paralympic Games 2022 (Beijing, China). The text discusses the experience of participation of Chinese Olympic volunteers in relevant activities ...
Marina P. Sukharkova
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Analysis of wheelchair falls in team sports at the Paralympic Games: video-based descriptive comparison between the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 games

BMJ Open, 2022
Objectives To identify the fall characteristics of athletes in wheelchair rugby and wheelchair basketball during the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games and descriptively compare these with those of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.Design Cross-sectional analysis ...
Yukio Urabe, Kazuki Fukui, Junpei Sasadai, Makoto Komiya, Noriaki Maeda, Reia Shimizu, Akira Suzuki, Shogo Tsutsumi, Satoshi Arima, Tsubasa Tashiro, Kazuki Kaneda, Mitsuhiro Yoshimi, Rami Mizuta, Takeru Abekura, Hinata Esaki, Tomoki Terada   +15 more
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Investigation of supplement use and knowledge among Japanese elite athletes for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic/Paralympic games and the Beijing 2022 winter Olympic/Paralympic games

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2023
Elite athletes frequently invest in the use of supplements to optimize their dietary regimens and enhance their athletic performance. However, unregulated and unplanned use of supplements can lead to adverse consequences, including anti-doping rule ...
Kanae Myoenzono, Jun Yasuda, Jun Yasuda, Eri Takai, Akiho Shinagawa, Noburo Kaneko, Takahiro Yoshizaki, Keiko Namma-Motonaga, Masae Yoshino, Emi Kondo, Emi Kondo, Kohei Nakajima, Mika Hangai, Kazuyuki Kamahara, Etsuko Kamihigashi, Shusuke Kusano, Akiko Kamei   +16 more
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From minding the gap to widening the gap: Paralympic athletes' experiences of wellbeing during the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 games

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2022
In March 2020, it was announced that the Tokyo Games would be postponed for one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While athletes commonly face challenges in sport such as injuries, the pandemic and rescheduling of the Games was an unexpected event that ...
Andrea Bundon, Andrea Bundon, Lisa R. Trainor, Erica V. Bennett, Myriam I. Tremblay, Staci Mannella, Peter R. E. Crocker   +6 more
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Paralympic movement in Malaysia: The achievement of high-performance para sports

Journal Sport Area, 2021
The article elaborates on the achievement of the Malaysian athletes with disabilities locally and also in international scenes. Malaysian athletes start to participate in international competition since 1962, and local games had been organized back in ...
Nagoor Meera Abdullah, Mohan Govindasamy, Megat Shahriman Zaharudin, Subramanian Raman Nair   +3 more
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Sports Injury and Physiotherapy Services in the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Paralympic Games: Considerations and Potential Recommendations for Future Paralympics

Physical Therapy Korea, 2022
Background: The PyeongChang 2018 Winter Paralympic Games (WPG) being one of the most successful Paralympic Games (PG) in modern athletic world history, hosted the largest number of elite athletes representing 49 National Paralympic Committees (NPCs ...
Haeun Park, Joon Young Chang, Jongseok Hwang, Young Hee Lee, Joshua (Sung) Hyun You   +4 more
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Lessons from the Winter Paralympic Games disclosing the epidemiology of winter sports injury in paralytic athletes: a meta-analysis

BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2022
Background In this study, the incidence rate of the injury in Winter Paralympic Games was summarized. Besides, to testify the underlying factors of injury incidence heterogeneity, the difference of these events incidence between different Paralympic ...
Fengyu Wu, Yitong Liu, Maohua Zhuang
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Factors Influencing the Training Process of Paralympic Women Athletes

Sports, 2023
(1) Background: Paralympic women athletes in their training process go through a series of interrelated stages which are parallel to their evolutionary development, during which a wide variety of psychological, social, and biological factors will have an
Manuel Rodríguez Macías, Francisco Javier Giménez Fuentes-Guerra, Manuel Tomás Abad Robles   +2 more
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Injuries and illness of athletes at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic summer games visiting outside facilities

Sports Medicine and Health Science
This study aimed to identify the reasons for transferring athletes to local medical facilities during the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Data on 567 injuries and other illnesses of athletes treated at the on-site clinics were collected from the Tokyo 2020
Shuji Sakanashi, Hideharu Tanaka, Hiroyuki Yokota, Yasuhiro Otomo, Tomohiko Masuno, Kousuke Nakano, Junichi Inoue, Manabu Sugita, Takahiko Tokunaga, Nagisa Kato, Tomoya Kinoshi, Hironori Inoue, Hiroto Numata, Koshi Nakagawa, Ryo Sagisaka, Shota Tanaka, Tetsuya Miyamoto, Takao Akama   +17 more
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A Statistical Perspective on Running with Prosthetic Lower-Limbs: An Advantage or Disadvantage?

Sports, 2014
Technological developments have led to the increased use of carbon fiber and prosthetic lower-limbs in running events at the Paralympic Games. This study aims to exploit a series of statistical techniques in order to prepare a response to the vital ...
Hossein Hassani, Mansi Ghodsi, Mehran Shadi, Siamak Noroozi, Bryce Dyer   +4 more
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