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Adaptive Sports: Celebrating Paralympic-Level Performance

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 The Paralympic Games represent a celebration of the resilience, talent, and spirit of athletes with disabilities from around the world. Every four years, these games not only provide a platform to showcase exceptional sporting abilities but also promote inclusion and equality in sports. At this upcoming edition of the Paralympic Games, to be held in Paris in 2024, the sporting venues of the City of Light are expected to witness an even more exciting and diverse event. In this article, we delve into the world of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, exploring which Paralympic sports will be featured this year. The Paralympic classification system seeks to ensure fair competition among all athletes. Before participating in a Paralympic competition, athletes must go through a selection process, during which they are assessed and assigned a sport category based on the type and degree of their disabilities. This decision is made by a panel of medical and technical professionals who analyze ...

The Art and Discipline of Parkour

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 A real-life Spider-Man Maybe, maybe not. Climbing, running, jumping, and overcoming all kinds of urban obstacles that's Parkour. This discipline focuses on a person's physical and motor skills, efficiently developing purposeful movement and the purpose of movement. Its name comes from the French word parcour, which means "travel. The main objective of the traceur, or Parkour practitioner, is to run from one place to another in a free, subtle, and efficient style that adapts to the terrain. Freerunning (FR), or the art of movement (ADD), allows each person to set limits regarding the goals they set in advance. Their commitment, and how they decide to pursue and eventually project this activity, whether amateur or professional. Once the approach is decided, the type of training is chosen, which depends on that goal. Movements must be free and fluid. These principles are in line with the motto of this discipline To Be and to Endure. This means that the traceur the perso...

Ice Climbing: Gear, Training, and Global Hotspots

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 Out of the outdoor activities dealing with verticality, ice climbing is the most affected by changes in the environment. Whereas rock climbers have to deal with the weather, ice climbers also need to consider how the ice behaves as temperatures, humidity or the form of climb all change. You need to know the environment well and have experience from working with others who have similar experience to practice this activity. Ice appears in 11 different forms (as scientists explain), with very different compositions, so each type needs special tools and careful handling. Like other climbing disciplines, the sport of ice climbing has also improved its equipment and techniques to face the various obstacles that each climber meets as routes get more difficult. At first, the ice axes were long and straight in design, but soon, ice climbers started to use smaller, curved ice axes that were made for much steeper climbs. Otherwise, crampons became available and started with straight poi...

Speed Climbing and the Olympics: What You Need to Know

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 Sport climbing is like a vertical track race speed climbers climb hands and feet to roar up the rock face, extending their arms and legs almost 15 vertical meters in just 5 second faster than many spectators can run that distance. Padidiy climbers, as well as bouldering athletes the 400 meter climbers jump, jump, and balance to scale nearly impossible to reach ledges of up to 60 degrees with incredible moves and at alarming speed. Since the first International Sport Climbing Championships were held in Snowbird, Utah, in 1988, climbers have become faster, stronger, and more versatile. Now, in its second Olympic appearance, sport climbing will have two medal events: speed and combined. They feel a lot like going to your local climbing center with the difficulty turned up to 11. Olympic sport climbing combines puzzle-solving skills, global physical strength, and dizzying heights in the thrilling passion that will thrill the Parisian audience and the Olympic Qualifier Series, whe...

The Rebirth of Roller Derby: Empowerment on Wheels

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 We have to go back to the 1930s, and the journey to the US is to talk about roller derby culture. An exodus that lapsed into the 1970s, only to rebound again in Texas, on the threshold of the new millennium as a relentless clone of feminism. Until 2004, when the roller derby tribe truly took hold, following its own rules and shouting once again about the forgotten importance of women in the world. This passion leaves a trace of it in some corners of the province, like Alcoy, which is learning to become a pioneer in so many other things as well. At that moment, Hermes Vélez became captain of the women's roller derby team that was set up in the city, which is now inactive. He, however, continues to coach. It's true, he was the first to coach a men's team at this summer's World Championships, with players from various skating disciplines, who, along with the women's team, returned to Barcelona with silver and bronze. The fact is that roller derby emerged from a g...

A Beginner’s Guide to Disc Golf

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 The beginning of one of the 20th century's most well-known toys began in 1871, when William Russell Frisbie, owner of the Olds Baking Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut, bought the company and renamed it the Frisbie Pie Company. The pies came in foil trays with the name of the company impressed into them. Years later, during the 1920s, Yale University's chronically hungry students, who consumed enormous quantities of Frisbie pies, employed the resultant vacant plates as a means of amusement, and they threw them to each other back and forth. In June 1947, American pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed to have seen several disc-shaped, unidentified objects during a flight over the Cascade Mountains, and with his light hand a new word made its way into the dailies - flying saucer. And in early July, the American press staged a real sensation around the globe: a flying saucer had crashed in New Mexico! The whole world was discussing the story, which solidly placed the word "flyin...

What Makes Quidditch a Real-Life Competitive Sport?

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 If mornings racing through the streets, training in the gym or trying to meditate amidst workday chaos with the help of yoga are too shallow for you, there are plenty of strange ways to bring movement into your life. Quidditch, piglet-throwing and pretend tennis: a healthy life is anything but boring. Being on a team is not just an opportunity to have fun and share the thrill of victory, it is also a great way not to miss out on sports (it is no coincidence that urban running coaches highly recommend finding a running buddy). But why not opt for team sports? Discovery has selected four quite serious sports games - which will make you laugh to your heart's content, have fun, provide a good load on the muscles. In short, to earn points in your favor one way or another. Of course, we are not talking about throwing a "plate" at a picnic in a casual way, but a somewhat more dynamic and, what's more, team version with clearly established rules, which is ultimate frisb...

How Sepak Takraw Is Gaining Global Attention

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 Sepak Takraw is an unusual sport which is half-way between football and volleyball. This spectacular and dynamic sport started in Southeast Asia, where it is highly prized as the national sport. Due to its unusualness and physicality, the sport is gaining popularity on the international level. In this article, we will consider what sepak takraw is, its history, attributes and potential for growth. Sepak Takraw (Sepak - kick, Takraw - wicker ball) started in Southeast Asia, and its history dates back many centuries. Even in ancient times, similar sports were enjoyed in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. Sepak Takraw was initially played with a wicker rattan ball, and the sport had no formal rules. Official rules were only made in the 20th century, and the sport turned professional. Sepak takraw in Malaysia gained the status of a national sport and later spread across Southeast Asia. This unique sport is a combination of football and volleyball, but it is only played with the fe...

Inside the World of Underwater Hockey

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 Octopush or underwater hockey is an exciting sport. The game is played underwater at the bottom of a swimming pool, where two teams battle for the right to shoot a puck into the goal of the other team using their unique sticks. In fact, despite it being a specialized sport, underwater hockey has become increasingly popular across many countries (e.g., Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, France and the USA), thanks to its uniqueness, strategy and strict demands in terms of physical fitness of the players. The history of underwater hockey began in the UK during the 1950s, when a group of divers created this sport in order to stay in shape over the winter. The game has since changed many times, but its basic premise, a team game under water, has not altered. Well, the great strength of underwater hockey lies in its ability to unite people of different ages and physical abilities on the principles of water and team sport passion. Let us repeat again that Underwater hockey is a ...

The Rise of Pickleball: Why It’s America’s Fastest-Growing Sport

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 Kazakhstan occupies the 141st place out of 180 potential in the ranking of the respected Paris-based international group. Kazakhstan is located between Hong Kong and Honduras. Kazakhstan moved one place down last year. This is probably due to the fact that the general situation in terms of freedom of speech in the world deteriorated. For the first time ever in the history of the ranking, conditions for working journalists have worsened in half of the countries of the world and are only decent in one in four," says the Reporters Without Borders report. "In 42 nations, where over a majority of the world's population live (56.7 percent), the situation is 'very serious'. Kazakhstan's media is actually nothing more than a "propaganda channel for the regime," state media activists, as there are only a handful of remaining independent media in the country: online news website Vlast, Uralskaya Nedelya and Respublika.kz newspapers, and the KazTAG news a...