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In watching the opening ceremony of the Paralympics I can’t help but be struck by a number of divides and how these may or may not play out over the coming weeks. The first involves the divide between…
As I write this, the Paralympic opening ceremony is in full throes with the athletes streaming into the stadium in the traditional march-on. This year will see 4,200 athletes and 166 national Paralympic…
If you have PODS – Post-Olympic Depression Syndrome – don’t fear: the Paralympics are almost here. It looks as though this will be first Paralympic games to be a sell out, with an unprecedented demand…
No sooner had we gotten back into something resembling a normal sleeping pattern after the Tour de France and the London Olympics, than the Paralympic Games are set to begin. This year’s Games in London…
As an orthoptist and academic in the Department of Clinical Vision Sciences at La Trobe University, I also volunteer my time as a National Classifier of vision impaired athletes for the Australian Paralympic…
I have had a long-term interest in the Olympics and Paralympics since the NSW government submitted a bid for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games in 1990 and the subsequent announcement in 1993 by Juan Antonio…
The discourse around events like the Olympics or Paralympics is frequently that the bid committees and the politicians promote the potential legacies for the communities. These can include built legacies…
The Paralympics is certainly a big event in the calendar of disabled sportspeople. But the Paralympics are also a time of uneven and problematic reporting. Media coverage during the Paralympics will be…