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National Paralympic sport policies influencing a country’s Paralympic success [PDF]
International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 2023 The Paralympics Games are increasing in competitiveness as more countries seek top medal outcomes. In response, governments are focusing on the development and implementation of effective national sport policies/systems to optimise Paralympic success.
Pankowiak, Aurélie +3 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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Sport and exercise medicine and the Olympic health legacy [PDF]
, 2012 London 2012 is the first Olympic and Paralympic Games to explicitly try and develop socioeconomic legacies for which success indicators are specified - the highest profile of which was to deliver a health legacy by getting two million more people more ...
Copeland Robert J +14 more
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Preparing for snow-sport events at the Paralympic Games in Beijing in 2022 : recommendations and remaining questions [PDF]
, 2022 During the 2022 Winter Paralympic Games in Beijing, the Para snow-sport events will be held at high altitudes and in possibly cold conditions while also requiring adjustment to several time zones.
Holmberg, HC +21 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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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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Preparing athletes and teams for the Olympic Games: Experiences and lessons learned from the world's best sport psychologists [PDF]
, 2015 As part of an increased effort to understand the most effective ways to psychologically prepare athletes and teams for Olympic competition, a number of sport psychology consultants have offered best-practice insights into working in this context.
Mustafa Sarkar +5 more
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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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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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