Gold Medals, Silver Medals, Bronze Medals, and Total Medals: An Analysis of Summer Paralympic Games from 1992 to 2016 by Miguel Jacinto, Diogo Monteiro, Rui Matos, Raul Antunes

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Does Producing Scientific Articles Lead to Paralympic Podiums? by Francine Pilon, François Prince

“…The results showed a greater (7x) production of scientific articles relating to the Summer Paralympics compared to those relating to the Winter Paralympics. …”
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Pandemic-specific coping, anxiety, and depression across multiple waves of COVID-19 in elite athletes with disabilities by Piotr K. Urbański, Tomasz Tasiemski, Britton W. Brewer

“…The purpose of the current study was to examine the extent to which pandemic-specific coping predicted anxiety and depression over and above general coping styles in elite athletes with disabilities across multiple waves of the COVID-19 pandemic.MethodsParticipants were 91 athletes (60 men and 31 women) in the Polish Paralympic Preparation Program before the 2020 Tokyo Summer Paralympic Games and 2022 Beijing Winter Paralympic Games. …”
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How Can Biomechanics Improve Physical Preparation and Performance in Paralympic Athletes? A Narrative Review by Jared R. Fletcher, Tessa Gallinger, Francois Prince

“…The main themes within this review focus on sport-specific body posture: the standing, sitting, and horizontal positions of current summer Paralympic sports. For standing sports, sprint and jump mechanics were assessed in athletes with cerebral palsy and in lower-limb amputee athletes using running-specific prostheses. …”
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