Mega-events like the Olympics have the potential to start important conversations around societal change. But improving the lives of disabled people takes much more than that.
- Associate Professor in Disability Studies, Coventry University
Community sport already faced financial difficulties and funding cuts – coronavirus will only make this worse.
L’austérité budgétaire génère des inégalités croissantes avec un effet négatif sur la participation sportive.
Comment les Jeux organisés à la fin des années 1940 à l’hôpital de Stoke Mandeville ont donné naissance aux Jeux paralympiques, sous l’impulsion du Dr Guttmann.
In the past five or six years there has been a marked increase in the overt use of disability sport in the rehabilitation of soldiers injured in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – which, in a sense, is…
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