Disabled sports, whether as leisure activities, rehabilitation or fitness-related exercises, or
as competitive entities, have become widely accepted in today’s society, and recently they …

Every four years, hundreds of disabled athletes from around the world gather together to
compete in the largest sporting event of its kind-the Paralympic Games. Yet there is always one …

Every four years the Paralympic and the Olympic Games combine to become the largest
single sporting event on the globe. The combination of these two sporting movements is …

There is no dispute that engaging in physical activity and recreational sports can have positive
implications for one’s physiological and psychological health. It has been proven to raise …

While the concept of legacy of sporting mega-events has been highly debated and filled with
the promise to deliver tangible and measurable benefits, in the context of the Paralympics, …

Studies that have engaged parasport broadcasting, particularly through a narrative lens,
have almost exclusively relied on textual and/or content analysis of the Paralympic Games as …

The current study is intended to examine how mass media, especially TV news transcripts,
have framed the Paralympic games and athletes with disabilities in their coverage of these …

This study, which examines key features of contemporary media representations of disabled
athletes in the context of the Paralympic Games, engages with established literature on …

The Paralympic Games such as we know them today remain the result, and the inheritance
of a loaded history by bringing together, not only, the history of sport and sports practices, but …

The purpose of this article is to analyze the coverage of the Paralympics in the New York
Times (NYT) from the first appearance of the term Paralympics in 1955 up to 2012. We …