ABSTRACT
Introduction The AthletesFirst project was how my teammate Courtney and I responded to what we perceived to be a critical need in the disability sport community. Observing the rapidly rising popularity of blogging with amateur athletes – in 2010 it was de rigeur for athletes trying out for the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic teams to have blogs – we decided to create a blog of our own that would provide athletes with disabilities with an online space for the types of discussions that we felt were currently missing in offl ine sport networks. We recruited four athletes who would join us in the venture by contributing weekly posts and serving as a pseudoeditorial board and, together, we launched www.AthletesFirst.ca.
