Stadium‚ and will form the ’gateway’ to the Games with two 50-metre (160-foot) swimming pools and a 25-metre (82-foot) diving pool in Olympic Park at Stratford‚ London‚ it was one of the main venues of the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Paralympics. It will host swimming‚ diving‚ synchronised swimming and the swimming discipline of the modern pentathlon. Once the Games are completed‚ the Aquatics Park will transform from an Olympic venue with a capacity to hold 17‚500‚ into a 2‚500 capacity
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Final assignment: 2010/2011 | Persons with disability & Sport | Globalization of World politics | | | 07/06/2011 | | History of the minority group: persons with disability “Disability is any physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements‚ senses or activities. The term disability is conventionally used to refer to attributes that are severe enough to interfere with‚ or prevent‚ normal day-to-day activities.” There are over 600 million people in the world
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Meghan Strong Mrs. Wamsganz English 21 May 2013 Special Olympics Would you say people with disablilities are less fortunate? Would you say they aren’t capable of things that an everyday person are? No‚ it’s not that they are less fortunate or uncapable‚ but are carriers of unique gifts and talents. The Special Olympics started off only as a summer camp for those with intellectual disabilities. The camp was created to test and discover the phyical and mental abilities of these special
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Biomechanical analyses of the performance of Paralympians: From foundation to elite level Clinical Perspectives in Research and Product Development Biomechanical analyses of the performance of Paralympians: From foundation to elite level Sarah A. Curran1 and Laurent Frossard 2‚3 1 2 Wales Centre for Podiatric Studies‚ Cardiff Metropolitan University‚ Cardiff‚ UK Group of Research on Adapted Physical Activities‚ Université du Québec à Montréal‚ Canada 3 Marie Enfant Rehabilitation Centre‚ CHU Sainte-Justine
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“Power Wheelchair Racing is a new sport that was introduced in 2006. There are few to no sports that are available for people with high level injuries‚ and people with limited mobility. Power Wheelchair Racing can be done by anyone with a power chair. This sport is good for your mind‚ body‚ and soul. Not only is it fun‚ but its filled with excitement and challenges. Everyone is welcome to join in PWRA. Racing classes (levels) will be made to match racers equally by speed‚ abilities‚ and experience
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An athlete who wants to compete in the Paralympics must have an eligible impairment that leads to permanent limitation. These can be either a physical impairment‚ vision impairment or intellectual impairment. The main categories of impairment for the Paralympic Games are impaired muscle power‚ impaired passive range of movement‚ limb deficiency‚ leg length difference‚ short stature‚ hypertonia‚ ataxia‚ athetosis and visual impairment. Athletes are classified by Classifiers who are trained and certified
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Argumentative essay 1. Introduction 1.1 How boxing started 1.2 Nowadays women practice boxing 1.3 Famous female bóxers 2. Women have the same opportunities as men 2.1 Why allow women in boxing? 2.2 Women can do the same physical training 2.3 Women can follow the same discipline as men 3. Women are also skillful 3.1 Women are also fast 3.2 Women are strong 3.3 With obvious reason women are more kind-heart 4. Men think boxing is not appropiate
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The 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games (Adapted from a case written by Peter McNamara‚ Garrett Murray and Carolin Grampp‚ UCD Business School and Paul Browne‚ 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games Limited.) For 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games to be successful: ➢ First of all‚ it “has to be organisationally well run‚ well managed so that the country is seen to be capable of organising an international world event and that is what it is”. ➢ Secondly‚ “the special people
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The Paralympics is meant to be an event which showcases the phenomenal physical abilities performed by athletes despite their disabilities. Unfortunately‚ the athletes and the disabled population comes off worse due to negative stereotypes created by segregation‚ lack of funding due to the Paralympics and being separated by social borders. These issues have been brought to the spot light by Keith Storey. Segregation in sport is used to create a fair playing field by separating athletes based on
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olympics is held in a different country every two years alternating between winter and summer sports‚ it starts at the first week of august and ends at the last week. Following by the paralympics in the month of september. Paralympics are held for talented athletes who are born with disabilities. Although the paralympics are watched‚ there is never as much of a turn out compared to
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