Research question The study aims to explore agents' motives and strategies in presenting
elite athletes with disabilities (EAwD). Research methods Utilising a phenomenological …

Purpose This phenomenological study aims to explore how media promote and should
promote wheelchair rugby. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured interviews were …

Rationale/purpose: To determine if the field of sport for development (SFD) presents
opportunities for the employment of design thinking approaches toward enhancing …

The purpose of this study was to explore the status of Paralympic hopefuls' athletic identity
and how this identity was impacted by the training and competition cessation resulting from …

Since the founding of the National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA) in 1949,
wheelchair basketball has expanded to over 200 teams in the US and Canada. Despite the …

The purpose of this narrative inquiry is two-fold: first, to illuminate the views and experiences
of Brazilian female Paralympians that helped shape their narrative identities, and second, to …

Contextual factors are fundamental but often overlooked elements of parasport that can
introduce various complexities within the parasport system. The purpose of this paper is to …

The paper reports on in-depth qualitative interviews with six participants involved in the
Paralympic movement: One past and three present Para-athletes as well as high-ranking …

Abstract The Paralympic Games is the largest sporting competition for athletes with an
impairment. This competition has, however, had limited news coverage in the past …

Despite the growth of college sports as a whole, college adaptive sport programs are still
relatively scarce. Even more scarce are the resource college adaptive sport programs …