Paralympian

English 2021 August 25 Etymology thumb|Australian Paralympian Neil Fuller competing in the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. From en Paralympic ian suffix with the sense ‘having a certain profession’ forming nouns, or with the sense ‘from, like, or related to’ forming adjectives.n 247070 March 2018 1; n en Paralympic is a en paraplegic Olympic 1 1; the Paralympic Games were originally organized for persons with paraplegia from spinal injuries, but are now participated in by sportspersons with all kinds of disabilities.Paralympic adj. and n 240794 December 2019 1; Paralympic adj Pronunciation en /ˌpæ.ɹəˈlɪm.pɪ.ən/ RP en /ˌpæ.ɹəˈlɪm.pi.ən/ /ˌpɛ-/ GA en En-us-Paralympian.oga GA en Pa ra lymp i an Noun en sports One who competes in the Paralympic Games. from mid 20th c. en Amaldo Cortesi Paralympic Games open at Rome Olympics site St. Petersburg Times St. Petersburg, Fla. The Times Publishing Co. 19 September 1960 77 57 section C (Sports), image caption 4-C https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84061063/paralympian/ 3 1032335169 DICK MADURO … Paralympian en Jim Murray Better half Nick B[oddie] Williams w:Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, Calif. w:Times Mirror Company 30 September 1964 LXXXIII 291 part III (Sports) 1 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84062296/paralympians/ 1–2 634549976 These are the "Paralympians," the wheelchair athletes of the world, whose own Olympics will be held in Tokyo immediately after the regular Olympiad. I spoke to two young Paralympians from the Long Beach area the other day, Frank Vecera and Bill Johnson. "I am only half here," Frank Vecera confided. He smiled when he said it. en w:LeRoy T. Walker Prepared Statement of Dr. LeRoy T. Walker Oversight of Activities of the Olympic Committee: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Consumer of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second SessionPrinted for the Use of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation S. Hrg. 103-724 Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office 11 August 1994 17 https://books.google.com/books?id=3YO_uiXh92kC&pg=PA17 978-0-16-045844-6 Our athletes, Olympians and Paralympians, joined together in April to represent the 1994 U.S. Olympic Team in a visit to President [Bill] Clinton at the White House. en Sandra Perlmutter Message from the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Linda K. Bunker Physical Activity & Sport in the Lives of Girls: Physical & Mental Health Dimensions from an Interdisciplinary Approach: Executive Summary: The President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports: ReportUnder the Direction of the Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, University of Minnesota: Supported by the Center for Mental Health Services/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Washington, D.C. President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports spring 1997 5 https://books.google.com/books?id=QvyBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA5 53033722 In the summer of 1996, our nation cheered the performance and achievements of the U.S. women Olympians and Paralympians. The images of strong, active women were inspiring, a long way from the days when females were relegated to "lady-like" sports and young girls were left on the sidelines while their brothers played. en Susan Greenwald Victories by and for the Disabled Michael J. Bandler U.S. Society & Values: Electronic Journal of the U.S. Department of State: Sports in America Washington, D.C. Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State December 2003 8 2 20 https://books.google.com/books?id=wOTlvYwvEOwC&pg=PA20 2 47122772 Marla [Runyan] has been legally blind for more than 20 years. Marla ran the 1500-meter race at the Sydney Summer Olympics in 2000 to finish eighth, while becoming the first Paralympian to compete in the Olympics. en 2012-08-21 Paralympic flames light up countdown to biggest Games in history Alexandra Topping w:The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/aug/21/paralympic-flames-countdown-biggest-games The lighting ceremonies mark the start of the biggest Paralympics in history, which will see 4,200 Paralympians from 165 nations compete in London in sports including wheelchair racing, athletics, blind football and wheelchair rugby, and pit their wills against the finest talents in the world. https://web.archive.org/web/20261013132730/https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/aug/21/paralympic-flames-countdown-biggest-games 13 October 2026 en James Mastro; Christopher Ahrens; Nathan Statton Paralympians are Inspirations for All Thomas Riggs & Company Are Athletes Good Role Models? At Issue Farmington Hills, Minn. Greenhaven Press, Gale, Cengage Learning 2014 55 https://books.google.com/books?id=eIFmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA55 978-0-7377-6820-6 James Mastro is a seven-time paralympian who has earned ten medals in four different sports and is a professor in the department of professional and physical education at Bemidji State University in Bemidji, Minnesota. en Linda K. Fuller Gendered Implications of Olympic and the Paralympic Events Female Olympian and Paralympian Events: Analyses, Backgrounds, and Timelines Cham, Switzerland Palgrave Macmillan, Springer International Publishing 2018 15 https://books.google.com/books?id=L1dxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA15 10.1007/978-3-319-76792-5 978-3-319-76791-8 Many authors caution us against overusing terms like “amazing” relative to Paralympians’ achievements, and all scholars encourage us to treat them respectfully in linguistic terms that get rid of labels ranging from “supercrips” to “exotics.” Many such Paralympians simply want to be known as sportspeople, their various activities known as sport, if adaptive. en Mike Kent; Rachel Robertson; Katie Ellis; w:Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Looking to the Future for Critical Disability Studies https://books.google.com/books?id=4Kp-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT31 Katie Ellis; Rosemarie Garland-Thomson; Mike Kent; Rachel Robertson Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disability: Looking towards the Future Interdisciplinary Disability Studies Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y. w:Routledge 2019 2 978-1-138-48401-6 [Tatiane] Hilgemberg [Figueiredo] shows how the media began to use more sports-related terms in describing paralympians but notes also the continued persistence of the medical model and supercrip stereotypes within the coverage. en w:Josh Pauls From Humble Beginnings Lessons Learned: My Journey to the Podium Victoria, B.C. FriesenPress 2019 103 https://books.google.com/books?id=X7OoDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA103 978-1-5255-5147-5 Through all the challenges Paralympians face, the number of athletes at each Games continue to grow in both winter and summer sports due, in part, to additional media coverage in many countries and more programs developing throughout the world. Even with mountains in their way, Paralympians still find a way to succeed. Hypernyms en para-athlete Coordinate terms en Deaflympian en Olympian en Special Olympian Related terms en Paralympiad en Paralympic Games en Paralympics Translations one who competes in the Paralympic Games Arabic: ar بَارَالَمْبِيّ m, ar بَارَالَمْبِيّة f Chinese: Cantonese: yue 殘奧會運動員 caan4 ou3 wui6 wan6 dung6 jyun4 Mandarin: cmn 殘奧會運動員 Cán'àohuì yùndòngyuán Dutch: nl paralympiër m used for any gender Estonian: et paraolümpiamängudest osavõtja s Finnish: fi paralympiaurheilija, fi paralympialaisurheilija French: fr paralympien m, fr paralympienne f German: de paralympischer Athlet m, de paralympische Athletin f Irish: ga parailimpiach m Italian: it paralimpico m, it paralimpica f Japanese: ja パラリンピアン pararinpian Polish: pl paraolimpijczyk m, pl paraolimpijka f Portuguese: pt paraolímpico, pt paralímpico Romanian: ro paralimpic m, ro paralimpică f Spanish: es paralímpico m, es paralímpica f Swedish: sv paralympier Welsh: cy paralympiad m Adjective en sports Of or pertaining to a en Paralympian one who competes in the Paralympic Games. en Linda K. Fuller Gendered Implications of Olympic and the Paralympic Events Female Olympian and Paralympian Events: Analyses, Backgrounds, and Timelines Cham, Switzerland Palgrave Macmillan, Springer International Publishing 2014 2018 15 https://books.google.com/books?id=L1dxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA15 10.1007/978-3-319-76792-5 978-3-319-76791-8 As girls and women of all stripes of ability around the world are encouraged to become involved in sport, and as nearly all nations submit Paralympian females, it is hoped that support for fellow athletes—emotionally as well as economically, is part of that process. en w:Tom Shakespeare Disabled People Don’t Want to Be Your Inspiration, but If They Are It’s No Surprise The Conversation https://web.archive.org/web/20201103163132/https://theconversation.com/disabled-people-dont-want-to-be-your-inspiration-but-if-they-are-its-no-surprise-65430 3 November 2020 Parkville, Melbourne, Vic. The Conversation Media Group 15 September 2016 Should we be inspired by Paralympian achievement? Commentator Frances Ryan recently counselled Guardian readers to be careful to think through their reactions to disabled "superhuman" athletes and academic poster boys like Professor Stephen Hawking. Treat people with disabilities just like everyone else, is the argument. en Clare O’Donoghue Discourses/4. Brazil: Accessing the Rights of Children with Disabilities: Attitudes towards and Challenges for SEND in Brazil Federico Farini; Angela Scollan Children’s Self-determination in the Context of Early Childhood Education and Services: Discourses, Policies and Practices International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development 25 Cham, Switzerland w:Springer Nature 2019 part II (Discourses) 193 https://books.google.com/books?id=JXCfDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA193 10.1007/978-3-030-14556-9 978-3-030-14555-2 2468-8746 There was a real fear that not all Paralympians would be able to attend the games because the Paralympian athletes' travel grants were paid 3 weeks' late. Of or pertaining to the Paralympic Games; Paralympic. en Funds sought for ‘Paralympian’ trip Nick B[oddie] Williams w:Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, Calif. w:Times Mirror Company 20 August 1964 LXXXIII 250 part III (Sports) 8 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84072587/paralympian/ 2–3 634549976 Funds sought for ‘Paralympian’ trip [article title] At present, however, the Long Beach resident has more than records on his mind, mainly getting a representative U.S. team to the 1964 "paralympics" to be held in Tokyo Nov. 8–12. [Frank] Vecera is on a fund-raising drive for the six California athletes selected to perform on this year's team. The tab for transporting the six to Tokyo is $3,900. en Mike Walters Why the commissionaires’ handling of Jody Cundy has been a disgrace to the Paralympics w:Daily Mirror https://web.archive.org/web/20170508124700/http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/cycling/paralympics-2012-why-the-commissaires-handling-of-jody-1292874 8 May 2017 London w:Reach plc 31 August 2012 0307-0204 223228477 So they disqualified [Jody] Cundy on the spot. And it must be said, [Alfonso] Cabello's coaches covered themselves in little glory by registering their own protest that Cundy should not be allowed a restart. True Paralympian spirit, eh, senors? en Offering paralympian dreams to young amputees w:Khmer Times https://www.khmertimeskh.com/86745/offering-paralympian-dreams-young-amputees/ Phnom Penh, Cambodia Virtus Media 18 October 2017 1235845515 Offering paralympian dreams to young amputees [article title] en Linda K. Fuller Gendered Implications of Olympic and the Paralympic Events Female Olympian and Paralympian Events: Analyses, Backgrounds, and Timelines Cham, Switzerland Palgrave Macmillan, Springer International Publishing 2018 15 https://books.google.com/books?id=L1dxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA15 10.1007/978-3-319-76792-5 978-3-319-76791-8 Just as with the Olympic Games, Paralympian ones continue to change. Translations of or pertaining to a Paralympian Polish: pl paraolimpijski Spanish: es paralímpico of or pertaining to the Paralympics Paralympic References Further reading Paralympic Games en Disability People