Being Disabled Becoming a Champion

<p><em>Being Disabled Becoming a Champion</em> is an accessible presentation of current European research on the most recent evolutions in sports for people with disabilities demonstrating knowledge developed from the field of sports practices of people with disabilities.</p><p></p><p>It covers three interrelated themes. First it covers the different facets of the history of sports organizations set up during the 1950s for athletes with motor or intellectual impairments. The second part focuses on the athletes themselves. Voices are given to the top-level athletes in adapted sports: people with intellectual impairment; the pioneers of wheelchair racing who invented a new discipline off-road wheelchair racing; and a former Paralympic athlete who has become a researcher and a defender of specific sports practices. Finally the third part interrogates the way support for disabled people can modify the existing definitions and conceptions of the body of disability of what is human and of sports performance.</p><p></p><p>This is an ideal text for students and researchers studying and working in the areas of Disability Studies Sport Sciences and Paralympic Studies. </p><p></p><p>This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Sport in Society</i>.</p>