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Doping in Paralympic sport: perceptions, responsibility and anti-doping education experiences from the perspective of Paralympic athletes and parasport coaches

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2023
IntroductionLimited effort has been invested in understanding doping in Paralympic sport. The limited evidence that exists suggests that factors influencing doping in parasport are similar to Olympic sport.
Cornelia Blank, Kathrin Weber, Ian D Boardley   +2 more
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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 ...
Javier Pérez-Tejero
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U.S. Paralympic Hopeful's Athletic Identity and How It Has Been Affected by the Sport Disruption of COVID-19

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2021
The purpose of this study was to explore the status of Paralympic hopefuls' athletic identity and how this identity was impacted by the training and competition cessation resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tiao Hu
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Comparative Sport Policy Analysis and Paralympic Sport

, 2018
This chapter introduces the reader to discussions surrounding comparative sport policy literature and begins to reflect upon how comparative sport policy research might be informed by, and applied to, the Paralympic sporting context. In doing so, the chapter identifies a number of challenges in applying what have historically been able-bodied centric ...
Mathew Dowling
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Emotional regulation as factor of commitment to paralympic sports

European Psychiatry, 2021
Introduction Commitment to sports is especially important for well-being in people with disabilities (Malm et al., 2019), although mental health problems are common among Paralympic athletes (Hunt et al., 2019).
A. Yavorovskaya, I. Polikanova, Y. Semenov, S. Leonov, E. Rasskazova   +4 more
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Case Report: Training Monitoring and Performance Development of a Triathlete With Spinal Cord Injury and Chronic Myeloid Leukemia During a Paralympic Cycle

Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, 2022
IntroductionParatriathlon allows competition for athletes with various physical impairments. The wheelchair category stands out from other paratriathlon categories, since competing in swimming, handcycling, and wheelchair racing entails substantial ...
Oliver J. Quittmann, Oliver J. Quittmann, Benjamin Lenatz, Patrick Bartsch, Frauke Lenatz, Tina Foitschik, Thomas Abel, Thomas Abel   +7 more
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"A More Equitable Society": The Politics of Global Fairness in Paralympic Sport. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
The Paralympic Movement explicitly sets out to create a more equitable society and promote participation for all and fairness in disability sport. This is primarily achieved through the use of a range of interventions with less attention given to how ...
Leslie Swartz, Jason Bantjes, Divan Rall, Suzanne Ferreira, Cheri Blauwet, Wayne Derman   +5 more
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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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Specific aspects of self-discipline organizational process for the Paralympic sportsmen

Фізична реабілітація та рекреаційно-оздоровчі технології, 2022
There was revealed the essence of self-discipline organizational process for the Paralympic sportsmen. The necessity of taking into account the individual differences of the Paralympic sportsmen in the self-discipline organizational process was ...
Lyudmila Shuba, Victoria Shuba, Victor Shuba   +2 more
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Classification changes in para swimming and their impact on the Czech Para Swimming Team

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Kinanthropologica, 2022
This aim of this article is to describe up-to-date polices and main classification issues in Paralympic sport with focus on Paralympic swimming. Using narrative review, it determines the influence of recent classification changes by reviewing available ...
Vít Šašek, Klára Daďová, David Půlpán   +2 more
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