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Accommodating Paralympic bodies
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Accommodating Paralympic bodies book
Accommodating Paralympic bodies
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Accommodating Paralympic bodies book
ByDavid Howe
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2008
Imprint Routledge
Pages 16
eBook ISBN 9780203506097
ABSTRACT
The developments at Stoke Mandeville have been credited with starting the international sports movement for disabled people. Rather than being idealistic about the values of disabled sport, we should remember that its modern organized roots were driven by political expediency. These do not lie in sporting values for themselves, but in the use of sport, competitive activities and rehabilitation practices as a method of transforming paralysed ex-servicemen into taxpayers.