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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 +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 +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 +2 more
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Canadian women's experiences in mixed-sex sport: Wheelchair rugby
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2023 Wheelchair rugby was developed in Canada in the 1970s and named an official Paralympic sport in 2000. Wheelchair rugby is one of the few Paralympic or Olympic sports that includes mixed-sex participation. Where historically women with disabilities 1 have
Bronwyn Corrigan, Laura Misener
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Safeguarding Reimagined: Centering Athletes’ Rights and Repositioning Para Sport to Chart a New Path
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 ObjectivesPara sport has much to teach the broader sports world about safeguarding and athlete protections. By centering athletes’ human rights and underlining the rights-based philosophical underpinnings of the Paralympic Movement, we outline how sport ...
Yetsa A. Tuakli-Wosornu +2 more
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Identification of assistive technologies in paralympic sports: contributions and barriers
Cadernos Brasileiros de Terapia Ocupacional, 2020 The Paralympic sport is the sport modalities that make up the Paralympic Games, applying adapted rules, specifics theories, and structures for people with disabilities. The objective of this research was to present the assistive technologies (AT) used by
Isabel Cristinna do Nascimento da Silva +1 more
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The cyborgification of paralympic sport [PDF]
Movement & Sport Sciences - Science & Motricité, 2017 Since the turn of the century, the Paralympic movement has gained a high public profile. We will argue that this new high profile is a direct result of the focus of media attention upon new technologies of prosthetic medicine that have helped to create a legion of cyborg bodies that is manifest in the image of the contemporary sporting supercrip.
Howe, PD, Silva, CF
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CHARACTERISTICS OF MOTIVATION AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO RESILIENCE IN KAZAKHSTANI PARALYMPIC ATHLETES [PDF]
Journal of Applied Sports SciencesParalympic sport enables people with disabilities to significantly develop their functional abilities, improving their opportunities for full personal development and social integration.
Yuliya Krasmik +2 more
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Central European Journal of Sport Sciences and Medicine, 2020 Sprint cycling events require a high level of anaerobic capacity and therefore may affect peripheral fatigue throughout exercise-induced muscle damage. In fact, those alterations might decrease power generation. This study was performed on a 23 years old
Sebastian Klich +2 more
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BIO Web of Conferences, 2020 Nowadays in a new Paralympic kind of sport taekwondo WTF LMAI in Russia there is no Federal State Educational Standard (FSES). Athletes-invalids train in terms of standard for people with LMAI (locomotor apparatus injury) or taekwondo standard in the ...
Golovikhin Yevgeny +3 more
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