, population, having many participants per million inhabitants, being a former communist country, hosting the Paralympics, being a …

discuss how the Paralympics are essentially different to the Olympics and what this means for their management. Managing the … Paralympics explores how the organizers and connected stakeholders effectively organize and deliver the Paralympics, taking into … Component of the Paralympics (Simon Darcy) -- Chapter 4 Managing Legacy and the Paralympic Games (Laura Misener) -- Chapter 5 …

whilst this vision is commendable, the Paralympics has limited impact on the everyday lives of disabled people in the UK …

Following the final of the 200 metres in the London Paralympics 2012, athlete Oscar Pistorius criticised the prosthetic … fairness in the Paralympics which is currently framed within scientific discourse determining the validity of both athletes and … performance-enhancing technologies. By identifying how the Paralympics adopts a Rawlsian understanding of fairness, we explore the …

/methodology/approach – Unique “full” access to the London 2012 Paralympics allowed to the collection of data directly from the athletes. The study … 2012 Paralympics Games, as he athletes rated, on a five point Likert scale, 64 items in the “very satisfied” category, a … far and where the objectives were to explore the Paralympics games service quality and performance. Practical implications …