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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Paralympic Games"”.
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NPC Iceland preparation for the 2020 Paralympic Games : a mixed model thesis of the Icelandic Paralympic national team’s preparation leading up to the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo
Árið 2020 átti Ólympíumót fatlaðra (Paralympic Games eða PG) að fara fram í Tókýó en var frestað um ár vegna útbreiðslu á Covid-19 veirunni til ársins 2021. Ísland átti sex keppendur sem tóku þátt í þremur mismunandi íþróttagreinum á PG; frjálsum íþróttum, sundi og hjólreiðum. Tilgangur …
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Upper limb injuries in athletes participating at the London 2012 Paralympic Games
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has witnessed growing participation in the Games since its inception and has made strong efforts to collect comprehensive injury and illness data during the London 2012 Paralympics. Until now, no studies have comprehensively evaluated upper limb injuries …
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The Interscetions between economy, environment and loacality: the London 2012 Olympic and paralympic games
… sustainability commitments at the Olympic Games, and the environmental impact of the Olympics on the host communities. Research to date has lacked an explicit theoretical underpinning and in particular, the use of theoretical perspectives from the sociology of the environment literature to …
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Illness and injuries in athletes with visual impairment at the London 2012 Paralympic Games
… and evolved rapidly since the inception of the Paralympic Games. Athletes with visual impairment were first included in the Paralympic Games in 1976. Surveillance of illnesses and injuries forms the first important step in determination of the epidemiology and an understanding of the risk …
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An Overview on the performance of sprinters with lower limb amputation/impairment in Paralympic Games.
… issues at professional running at the Paralympic Games based on some statistical analyses. The available historical data in the Paralympics’ website has been considered as the source of information and some statistical tools have been applied in order to find some answers for the …
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The “Other” athletes: Representations of disability in Canadian print media during the London 2012 Paralympic Games
… this reasoning, stories told by the media about Paralympic athletes have the potential to influence our understanding of disability. This study reveals the representation of Paralympic athletes in Canada’s two national newspapers The National Post and The Globe & Mail surrounding the London 2012 …
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Injuries and illnesses in athletes with spinal cord injury during the 2012 London Summer Paralympic Games
Background: The Summer Paralympics have grown from participation of a mere 16 athletes at the 1948 Stoke-Mandeville Games, to a large multi-code event of 4176 athletes competing in 20 different sporting codes at the 2012 London Summer Paralympic Games. Unlike able-bodied athletes, Paralympic …
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Profiles of illness and injury among South African elite athletes with disability at the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games
… injuries and illnesses during the 2012 London Paralympic games. All team physicians could access the system at any time to log data, providing a vast database for potential research. The relative ease of data collection permits large amounts of data to be analysed, providing important …
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Competing and conflicting narratives: a framing analysis of the Paralympic Games in The New York Times and USA Today between 1996 and 2013
… thesis examined the print media coverage of the Paralympic Games between 1996 and 2013. The New York Times and USA Today were used as a representative sample of print media coverage in the United States and the time period of the study was selected as it was determined to have been a significant …
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Own the Podium Funding and Support: The Athletes' Perspective
… funding and support leading up to an Olympic or Paralympic Games. OTP, a nonprofit agency, is responsible for determining the overall investment strategy for high performance sport in Canada through recommendations to support national sport organizations (NSOs) with the aim to improve Canadian …
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Archiving the Games: collecting, storing and disseminating the London 2012 knowledge legacy
… in the UK to archive the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It has a specific focus on the intersections between collecting, storing and disseminating the Games’ knowledge legacy. The thesis makes an original contribution to the sparse body of research into archiving sport and Olympic …
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Inspiring or Perpetuating Stereotypes?: The Complicated Case of Disability as Inspiration
… a British infomercial for the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, as its case study. This research is informed by social science research on disability, critical media studies literature, as well as government documents and official reports. Qualitative data were gathered …
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Ambush Marketing in the context of the Olympic Games
… thesis is to discuss whether the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006 (London Act) is a proportionate response to the threat of ambush marketing. The discussion of proportionality examines whether the Act has struck the correct balance between all of the key stakeholders and will …
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Why do Channel 4 and the BBC portray disability and disability sport differently? Analysing the production processes and audience reception of mediated sport
… to the coverage of both the Summer and Winter Paralympics. The thesis investigates why the two broadcasters show disability and disability sport differently, drawing upon contrasting theories - the medical model of disability, the social model of disability, the crip theory, and the social …
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The universally designed village : creative concepts in urban design, guided by the experiences of disabled athletes
… athletes who have participated in the Paralympic Games. The Paralympic village is presumably one of the places in the world that is designed most directly with the need of disabled users in mind. Paralympic athletes are the intended users of the village and therefore are the most …
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Towards successful cerebral palsy football programs: A conceptual model
… around the world. Recent exclusion from the Paralympic games has emphasised its need for revitalisation and development on the international stage. The purposes of this research are first, to establish the value of CP football as an adaptive sport, and subsequently examine participatory and …
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Mega-events, community stakeholders and legacy: London 2012.
… legacies. Mega-events, such as the Olympic Games, are widely held to bring a variety of positive social benefits through the process of urban regeneration. This research is built around the development of a conceptual framework of social legacy impacts arising from the urban regeneration …
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A stakeholder approach to understanding the role of the Olympic Games in social development
Critics of the Olympic Games argue that rather than promoting the cherished values of Olympism, the Games have primarily been used as a means to leverage public funds to satisfy the economic interests of the elite, while typically returning to the community overdebtness of hosting the event, …
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The use of performance analysis in Olympic and Paralympic sport: the perspectives of coaches and analysts
… who compete internationally at the Olympic/Paralympic Games and World Championships, regarding their current and desired delivery. Within Study 1, face-to-face interviews were used to explore the what, when, how, and why of the delivery of performance analysis practice. Data were collected …
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Non-Governmental Organizations and Anti-Racist Resistance in Greater Rio de Janeiro
… for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The following chapter tells the story of Coletivo Papo Reto, a community collective turned NGO from the favela of Complexo do Alemão. In conversation with co-founder Thainã de Medeiros, I explore the motivations and rationale …
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