2008 Summer Paralympics

Performance Enhancing Drugs: Their Effect on Individuals, Athletics, and Society Three in every five Olympic athletes have been caught doping. Let that sink in. This means that on average, for each Olympic event, only one athlete who medals is also clean. Such widespread consumption of performance enhancing drugs (PED's) throughout dozens of sports and nations makes this a topic that must be promptly addressed: the integrity of athletics is at stake. Some may argue that tightening regulations on…

2007 world championships and ran a record 100-m sprint in 2008 Usain St. Leo Bolt. Usain Bolt had serval major accomplishments throughout his career in track. Usain St. Leo Bolt At the 2008 Olympic, Bolt won gold in all the events he entered, the 100-m and 200-m sprints and the 4 x 100-m relay; he repeated this feat at the 2012 games. Usain St. Leo Bolt He was the first Olympic athlete to set world records in all these events, and broke his 2008 100-m and 200-m records at the 2009 world…

In 2016 Gatorade released a new commercial with iconic athletes which included Usain bolt, Serena Williams, April Ross, and Paul George. In the commercial the athletes were pestered by their younger selves. The child version of these athletes helped motivate the athletes, such as wake them up, help them train, and be there moral support. An example of this is the first scene in the commercial where younger Serena Williams yells at older Serena Williams to get out of bed. Throughout the…

Sex testing was first introduced to the Olympic Games by Avery Brundage in 1936, in order to halt any athletes trying to disguise their sexual identity. The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and International Olympic Committee (IOC) have sex-control policies in place on the terms that; sex exists as a binary, sport is a level playing field and intersex athletes have an unfair advantage over others and should be banned. However this logic is not as straight forward as it…

Ryan Lochte has won a total of 89 medals in major international swimming competitions. Eleven of those were Olympic Medals. One might wonder, what would lead a man to such incredible success in swimming? There are as many reasons for athletics success as there are athletes, but Ryan Lochte has had at least three significant advantages. Ryan Lochte is one of the most prominent swimmers today because of the positive influences his dad, who served first as a swim coach, the lifelong molding and…

2.4.1 Historical Review of Paralympics Sainsbury 's (1998) cited several examples of sports and leisure clubs of people with disability in early 20th century, British society armed player (1932) and the disabled to drive the car club (1922). In fact, the first international organization working for the specific obstacle group and its participation in sports is the establishment of a deaf French, E. Reuben - alcais, in 1924 to support the 6 National Sports Federation for the deaf. SOURDS DES…

Murderball is one of the most revelating sports movies that has ever been created. It begins with the introduction of all the participants for the paralympic rugby team for the United States. The movie Murderball shows the passion and enthusiasm the players have for the sport. But at the same time, is able to show that they, as men, are no different than any other human out there. The players are susceptible to love, loss, and the competitive attitude that comes with sport. In the reading, “From…

Preconceived notions are then established, claiming that disability is undesirable and a lack. However, Channel 4’s trailer “We’re the Superhumans” and Nancy Mairs’ Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled challenges those beliefs. In the Paralympics trailer, each individual’s talents and capabilities are the main focus, not their disability. In comparison, Mairs’ creative non-fiction specifically relates how her multiple sclerosis influences her career as a writer. The two mediums…

Sukhsharn Johal SOCL 3310 Vincent Laus 7 December 2015 Murderball The individuals that are featured in Murderball defy stereotypes about disabled people. Some of the common stereotypes that disabled people face are: 1. Disabled people can’t have a life that is productive, and 2. Disabled people are dependent on others for help. The individuals in Murderball are challenging these stereotypes by participating in a sport called Rugby. When disabled people are playing in such a gut wrenching sport,…

Paralympic Cross-Country Skiing is one of the sports that will be showcased at the 2018 Pyeong Chang Winter Olympics from March 9-18. It is a sport for Skiing athletes that have physical disabilities. In the winter Paralympic games, this sport (along with the biathlon) is a part of two nordic skiing events. It involves cross-country skiing in short, middle, or long distances. There will be 20 medal events at this year's events. This year it will be the forty-second year of the event. The…