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Participação do Brasil nos jogos paraolímpicos de Sydney: apresentação e análise

2002; Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina do Esporte; Volume: 8; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s1517-86922002000300002

ISSN

1806-9940

Autores

Alberto Martins da Costa, Sílvio Soares dos Santos,

Tópico(s)

Physical Education and Sports Studies

Resumo

to the world of sports for the disabled.However, there were a lot of things that need technical and administrative improvement.Brazil showed a great evolution in parasports, and a great capacity to become one of the world powers of adapted sports.The aim of this work is to make a real and scientific presentation of such capacity, by means of statistics of the countries participating in the 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games, with the general results of medals, and the Brazilian participation in different modalities.An analysis is made of the qualitative performance evolution of Brazilian athletes through a comparison to their prior participation in the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games.

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