Paralympic Games

Although some level of adaptive sport has likely occurred throughout human history, organized sports for people with disabilities has a relatively brief history. The earliest international sports organization for people with disabilities was the International Committee for Deaf Sports, which was establish in 1922. 1932 saw the establishment of the British Society of One-armed golfers, which is one of the first organizations for people with specifically physical disability. The bloom of adaptive…

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…

that have worked to see an outcome. The Paralympics is an organization that should not be combined with the Olympics because it is an advantage having prosthetic limbs, there are more categories for the disabled, and the olympics would swamp over the athletes from the Paralympics.. The paralympics started after World War II, trying to make medical and evacuation procedures. In the year 1984 people with disabilities were in the structure of the Olympics game, and with that happening George Eyser…

“Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt” (Special Olympics). The athletes oath is quoted at the beginning of every Special Olympic event. Special Olympics is a competition in which mentally and physically disabled athletes compete in many different types of sports, such as basketball, golf, cheerleading, and bocce ball. It changes lives by promoting understanding, acceptance, and inclusion among people with intellectual disabilities. Special olympics provides the…

Reading the story about the one legged wrestler (Anthony Robles), it got my interested about other athletes that have had success while having some type of physical disadvantage. What really caught my interest, and a question that I wanted to explore on was Have there been any other instances in sports where having a physical disadvantage is considered cheating some people’s eyes. In Anthony robles case they said that his upper body was a lot bigger then all of the people in his weight class,…

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,…

what it is like to have to have the feet that some of us are fortunate to have. But don’t tell Oscar that because he has competed at high levels in every activity he has been involved with. The former paralympic athlete caused controversy when he was allowed to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympic game. Is that fair? Should Oscar even be allowed to compete with able-bodied humans, considering the fact that he may have an advantage due to his prosthetic foot? The topic in hand, for this paper, is…

1. The Special Olympics calls itself the largest sports organization for people with intellectual disabilities and a “global social movement” (Special Olympics, 2015). The goal of the organization centers itself on several principles, both for the individual athletes and the larger system. Special Olympics strives to build global communities in the hope of spreading acceptance and education for the population it serves, it strongly and actively advocates for raising awareness to both the…

zeroing in on the combative habits of a quad rugby player, the essence of the sport, and the relationships of the players with their significant others. Murderball illustrates the game previously known as “Murderball,” now referred to as wheel chair rugby, and the experiences of Team U.S.A. and Team Canada to the 2004 Paralympics. It can be discussed that the reason for creating this documentary was to reveal the amount of rivalry that occurs between people with disabilities or how their lives…

rather than losing weight she gained it. Being a philanthropist, Balding has participated in The Apprentice to raise money for the charity. She is the patron of quite a lot of charities, Riding for the Disabled, Diversity Role Models, British Paralympic Association, the Jane Tomlinson Appeal and Retraining of…