Open AccessParalympijský sport jako společenský fenomén
Author(s) -
Tomáš Zelenka,
Martin Kudláček
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
studia sportiva
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2570-8783
pISSN - 1802-7679
DOI - 10.5817/sts2016-2-3
Subject(s) - athletes , popularity , variety (cybernetics) , context (archaeology) , phenomenon , psychology , social psychology , public relations , sociology , political science , medicine , physical therapy , geography , computer science , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence
Sport for persons is promptly and naturally evolving as social phenomenon. This fact is documented worldwide variety of evidence. It is not only about the status and popularity of the Paralympic Games, it is not only dynamically growing number of disabled athletes and the growing range of adaptive sports, sports programs and various levels of competitions, but side by side with it the development of relevant national and international organizations and institutions, and even in some cases linking or merging sports platforms of ablebodied and handicapped athletes. Sport in the context of disabled athletes become parallely extroverted device demonstrations of their athletic abilities and also introverted medium having a positive influence on the biological, psychological and sociological human nature. On the other hand disabled people sport activity involvement is unfortunately very low.