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"The Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is the definitive, officially-licensed account of the world's greatest sporting mega-event. It tells the complete story of the 2012 Games from inception, through the successful bidding process and the planning and preparation phase, to delivery, aftermath and legacy. Written by a world-class team of international Olympic experts, sports researchers and writers, the book offers comprehensive analysis of the full social, cultural, political, historical, economic and sporting context of the Games. From the political, commercial and structural complexities of organizing an event on such a scale, to the sporting action that holds the attention of the world for three thrilling weeks, this book illuminates every aspect of the 2012 Games, helping us to better understand the vital role that sport and culture have in contemporary global society. The book is divided into two volumes. This, the first volume, examines the build up to London 2012, covering key topics such as: - the bidding process - planning and decision making - financing the Games - developing the Olympic infrastructure - engaging national and international governing bodies of sport - engaging the UK public - engaging a global public - developing a legacy programme - the cultural Olympiad. Richly illustrated with the personal accounts of key stakeholders, from sports administrators and politicians to athletes and spectators, and including essential data and evocative visual material, this book is essential reading for anybody with a personal or professional interest in the Olympic Games, global culture or the development of sport"--
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In 1960, the 9th Annual International Stoke Mandeville Games were supported, for the first time, by the Italian Olympic Committee. Taking place six days after the Closing Ceremony of the XVII Olympic Games, the paralympic games for disabled athletes were born. From Roma in 1960 to London in 2012, the Paralympic Games grew in terms of athletes’ number from 400 to 4,237, and now brings together more than 164 nations (Perret, 2015). The word “Paralympic” derives from the Greek preposition “para” (beside or alongside) and the word “Olympic”. Paralympics want to be the parallel Games to the Olympics and illustrate how the two movements exist side-by-side (Paralympics – History of the Movement, 2016). Now taking place after the Olympics Games, the Paralympic Games are the pinnacle of the career of athletes with physical impairments and have become the second largest sport event in the world (Perret, 2015; Paralympics – History of the Movement, 2016; Gold and Gold, 2011). The first statement of the vision of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), i.e. “to create the conditions for athlete empowerment through self-determination” (Paralympics – History of the Movement, 2016; International Paralympic Committee, 2016), shows the importance of the place of the athlete with an impairment at the heart of the Paralympic Movement. The ultimate aim of the IPC is « to enable Paralympic athletes to achieve sporting excellence and inspire and excite the world. » (International Paralympic Committee, 2016). The performance level of athletes with an impairment improved to a point that, in the present days, sport news and world sport movements focus on the potential advantage of artificial limbs among athletes with amputations and their integration in able-bodied competitions (Burkett, 2010). However, they do not represent the totality of athletes with an impairment at the Paralympic Games. Athletes with other physical impairments (visual deficit, spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy or else) are eligible to compete. These impairments induce typical functional and physiological (e.g., cardiovascular, thermoregulatory) responses to exercise. For example, spinal cord injury (athletes with tetraplegia or paraplegia) causes thermoregulatory impairment (Goosey-Tolfrey et al., 2008) and individuals with cerebral palsy have also demonstrated higher thermal and metabolic strain than matched controls during treadmill walking in the heat (Maltais et al., 2004). Thus, hyperthermia among these athletes with an impairment alters their performance compared to their Olympic counterparts (Bhambhani, 2002). Mechanical performance analysis, the description of physiological responses according to the functional impairment or else the response to training and the relationship between laboratory and field testing responses are different parts of a package introduced here to address the aim of the IPC: to enable Paralympic athletes to achieve sporting excellence (Paralympics – History of the Movement, 2016; International Paralympic Committee, 2016).
Disability --- heat --- performance --- Athletes --- Paralympics
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Olympics --- Study and teaching --- Olympic Games --- Paralympics
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Ils vont participer à la compétition la plus importante de leur vie. Certains sont déjà habitués comme Armand Duplantis ou Alexandre Léauté. D'autres vivront leur grande première comme Carlos Alcaraz ou les frères Lebrun. Pour d'autres encore comme Kylian Mbappé Antoine Dupont ou Marine Johannès on ne peut pas les imaginer ne pas la dispute.r Pour quelques-uns comme Teddy Riner ce sera leur dernière compétition. Mais pour tous c'est le rêve ultime disputer à Paris les Jeux Olympiques Retrouvez les 100 stars qui vont faire les Jeux de Paris 2024.
Olympics --- Paralympics --- Jeux paralympiques. --- Jeux olympiques
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"Benchmark Games is unique in that there has been no previous study of the staging and the legacy of a particular Paralympic Games. The book documents and analyses the new benchmarks that were set at the time of the successful Sydney Paralympic Games." "Benchmark Games explores many questions about the appeal of the Games to the community. It also considers the operation of disability sport and the place of the disability community in Australian life." --rear cover.
Sports and tourism --- Sports for people with disabilities --- Paralympics. --- Paralympics. --- Social aspects.
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Paralympic Games. --- Paralympics. --- Sports for people with disabilities
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Sports for people with disabilities. --- Athletes with disabilities. --- Paralympics --- History.
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Paralympic Games. --- Paralympics. --- Sports for people with disabilities
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Le sport autrement est une première dans le monde du sport et dans celui de l'édition. Pour la première fois, un livre est consacré aux sportifs handicapés (de haut niveau ou amateurs). Il est rédigé par une équipe de médecins spécialisés, oeuvrant tous à la Fédération Française Handisport dont on entend de plus en plus parler, notamment lors des Paralympiades. ...(4ème de couverture).
Sports for people with disabilities --- Paralympics --- Sports pour handicapés --- Jeux paralympiques
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Paralympics --- Sports for people with disabilities --- Mass media and sports --- Social aspects
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