An analysis of media text on "Integrated Korean Team": The revolving stage of politics and sports by Suyong Oh, Bang-Chool Kim

“…The purpose of this study was to critically interpret a certain sports-related idea, "Integrated Korean Team," which was an issue at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. …”
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Problematizing Olympic Nationality by Peter J. Spiro

“…We don't require that athletes playing for our professional sports teams hale from the cities they represent. There's no reason why we need to require more of our Olympic athletes.…”
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Proyecto interdisciplinar, «escuela: comunidad olímpica» (Interdisciplinary project, «School: Olympic community») by Lucía Peixoto Pino

“…This article is no more than an example of, on the one hand, how to work on coexistence though a project that unifies the diverse fields of study and work teams within an educational centre and, on the other hand, an example of how to bring the wealth of sports to the whole of the educational community.  …”
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How to Compare Relative Age Effect in Different Sports? A New Methodological Approach—Example of Youth Olympic Games by Drazen Cular, Matej Babic, Darko Katovic, Tea Beslija, Ana Kezic

“…The sample consisted of 1455 male and female young athletes who competed in four different sports (basketball, <i>n</i> = 159; handball, <i>n</i> = 215; swimming, <i>n</i> = 981; taekwondo, <i>n</i> = 100) at the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Buenos Aires in 2018. To construct the new model, the sample was classified into four unified quartiles of a specific range depending on the sport (swimming: 48-month range, taekwondo: 24-month range, and basketball and handball: 36-month range). …”
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Sport and self-concept of persons with intellectual disability by Boo, Xu Ning, Tan, Jocelyn Qian Yu, Vicky Vikneshri Puminathan

“…In particular, we look into 2 major sport events catered specifically to PID, namely, the Special Olympics (SO) and Unified Sports (UNS). We begin by discussing the definition and development of self-concept, followed by a review of studies looking at the positive and negative implications of sport on PID’s self-concept. …”
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