Wheelchair curling debuted at the 2006 Paralympic Games. Competing athletes utilize the same stones and ice sheets as Olympic curlers, although sweeping (ie, using a broom to control the stone’s trajectory) is omitted and the stone must be pushed from a stationary wheelchair using a delivery stick
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Brock Laschowski, Naser Mehrabi, and John McPhee
Jeffrey Martin, Mario Vassallo, Jacklyn Carrico, and Ellen Armstrong
, 2017 ). In particular, elite sport competitions such as the Paralympics and Olympics are considered ideal settings to observe intense emotional expressions associated with both success (e.g., joy) and failure (e.g., anguish) because winning at the Paralympics and Olympics is considered the pinnacle of
Nancy Quinn and Laura Misener
Paralympic community ( Howe, 2008a , 2018 ; Lins et al., 2019 ; McMaster et al., 2012 ; Peers, 2009 , 2012 ; Townsend & Cushion, 2017 ). However, more is required to credibly interrogate and broaden understandings of sporting experience of those with membership in the para sport community. With the
Kelly Pritchett, Robert C. Pritchett, Lauren Stark, Elizabeth Broad, and Melissa LaCroix
Paralympic program. Athletes were required to have an impairment of their spinal cord (e.g., spina bifida, SCI) in order to participate. Represented sports included rugby and athletics (track). The Central Washington University Human Subjects Review Committee approved the methods, and all participants
Scott Simon and Pam Richards
The operationalisation of a high-performance vision in the context of professional elite sport, in which shared mental models (SMMs) are developed within Paralympic sport, refutes the claim that Paralympic sport is a microcosm of Olympic performance. Instead, the Paralympic landscape should be
Isadora Grade, Henrique Andrade, Renato Guerreiro, Eduardo Stieler, Flavia R. da Silva, Hesojy G.V. da Silva, Roberto Vital, Renan A. Resende, Dawit A.P. Gonçalves, André G. Andrade, Marco T. de Mello, and Andressa Silva
night, 16 , 22 , 23 which can have a negative impact on musculoskeletal recovery and make them more susceptible to sports injuries and subsequent decline in performance. 24 , 25 In a Paralympic context, the greater visibility and popularity of the Paralympic Games in recent years have made it
Irineu Loturco, Lucas A. Pereira, Ciro Winckler, Weverton L. Santos, Ronaldo Kobal, and Michael McGuigan
populations. 6 This could provide practitioners with more accurate information regarding athletes who regularly train and compete at extremely low velocities (ie, bar velocity at 1RM). 6 , 10 Furthermore, given the lack of studies involving Paralympic athletes at all levels and disciplines, it would also be
Nikolaus A. Dean, Andrea Bundon, P. David Howe, and Natalie Abele
Women have been a part of the Paralympic Movement since the first games for people with disabilities (PWD) were held at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in the United Kingdom in 1948 ( DePauw & Gavron, 2005 ). However, there are growing concerns that women’s progress within the Paralympic Movement has
Georgia A. Askew, Ross A. Pinder, Ian Renshaw, and Adam D. Gorman
be very challenging for advocates ( Renshaw et al., 2022 ). However, we believe that practitioners working in complex systems such as Paralympic sport could be in the position to reframe such challenges and embrace the exciting opportunities they offer ( Pinder & Renshaw, 2019 ) to advance coach
Nima Dehghansai, Alia Mazhar, and Joseph Baker
to extend their careers ( Fortunato & Marchant, 1999 ; Halson et al., 2006 ). In addition, to our knowledge, there has yet to be a study that examines the TT process in Paralympic contexts, which emphasizes the importance of understanding how to do this process effectively for several reasons. First
