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Flags of convenience? Sport & nationality at the Olympic and Paralympic Games [PDF]
This chapter places issues of Olympic and Paralympic nationality within the context of sport, nationality and citizenship more generally. To do this it first examines some key contextual and historical issues, including how the law has responded to such ...
Gray, Stacie +4 more
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Return to sport in athletes after surgical ankle fractures: A systematic review
Abstract Purpose Ankle fractures represent a significant health concern for athletes, comprising 15%–25% of all sports‐related injuries. With increasing sports participation across all age groups, the public health impact of these injuries is expected to grow. Open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) is a common approach to managing ankle fractures,
Giovan Giuseppe Mazzella +6 more
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The 2012 Paralympics was the biggest ever, the most accessible and best attended in its 64-year history. The Paralympics and ideas of disability associated with the Games provide significant opportunity for reflection on how far societal opinions ...
Molesworth, Mike +4 more
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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 +3 more
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Biology and Management of Male‐Bodied Athletes in Elite Female Sports
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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Kyleena Paralympic Sport Performance Study
Kyleena® Paralympic Sport Performance Study is a prospective cohort study among 10 athletes from the Brazilian Paralympic team who chose to use the levonorgestrel intrauterine device (Kyleena®, Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceutica Inc., Wayne, NJ, USA) as a ...
MAITA POLI DE ARAUJO
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Alex Zanardi and Obiettivo 3: Introduction to Paralympic sport [PDF]
openLa sera prima delle Paralimpidi di Rio, nel 2016, Alex Zanardi ripensa alla sua storia, alla sua carriera agonistica e realizza ancora una volta come la vita lo abbia messo a dura prova, ma anche come gli abbia dato moltissime opportunità che ...
CAPPELLETTO, VALERIA
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Measuring an Olympic and Paralympic effect on sport participation
An Olympic and Paralympic effect on sport participation has never been robustly measured. 1- Is it possible to find out whether Olympic and Paralympic Games have caused sport participation changes?
Suzanne Dowse +4 more
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Paralympic Sport At School: A Literature Review [PDF]
Paralympic sport is the main means for disseminating disability sport, also present at school. The term Paralympic Education includes educational activities related to that movement. The main forms found were the Paralympic School Day (PSD) in Europe and
Tiago; Gaviao de Almeida +2 more
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Sports technology can be any product or system used to facilitate, train or influence an athlete’s performance. The role of prostheses used for disability sport was initially to help facilitate exercise and then ultimately, competition.
Dyer, Bryce T.J.
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