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Being Disabled, Becoming a Champion (Hardcover)
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Being Disabled, Becoming a Champion (Hardcover)
Series: Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
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Being Disabled, Becoming a Champion is an accessible presentation
of current European research on the most recent evolutions in
sports for people with disabilities, demonstrating knowledge
developed from the field of sports practices of people with
disabilities. It covers three interrelated themes. First, it covers
the different facets of the history of sports organizations set up
during the 1950s for athletes with motor or intellectual
impairments. The second part focuses on the athletes themselves.
Voices are given to the top-level athletes in adapted sports:
people with intellectual impairment; the pioneers of wheelchair
racing who invented a new discipline, off-road wheelchair racing;
and a former Paralympic athlete who has become a researcher and a
defender of specific sports practices. Finally, the third part
interrogates the way support for disabled people can modify the
existing definitions and conceptions of the body, of disability, of
what is human, and of sports performance. This is an ideal text for
students and researchers studying and working in the areas of
Disability Studies, Sport Sciences and Paralympic Studies. This
book was originally published as a special issue of Sport in
Society.
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