Full title: Benchmark games : the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games / [edited by] Richard Cashman and Simon Darcy ; with a foreword by Karen Tighe.

Author/creator: Cashman, Richard, 1940-, Darcy, Simon, University of Technology, Sydney. Australian Centre for Olympic Studies, Olympic Games (27th : 2000 : Sydney, N.S.W.), Paralympics (11th : 2000 : Sydney, N.S.W.), Cashman, Richard, 1940-.

Call Numbers: 796.48/113, N796.48/375

Record Identifier: 74VMQkvvvvNb

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: x, 278 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 23 cm., PART 1: BECHMARKS BEFORE 2000 -- 1. Introduction (Richard Cashman and Simon Darcy) -- 2. The evolution of the Paralympic Games (Ian Brittain) -- 3. Paralympic benchmarks before 2000 (Richard Cashman) -- PART 2: THE SYDNEY 2000 PARALYMPIC GAMES -- 4. The benchmark Games (Richard Cashman) -- 5. Paralympic planning (Simon Darcy) -- 6. Media and representation (Richard Cashman and Dominique Tremblay) -- 7. Community (Richard Cashman and Alana Thomson) -- 8. The delivery of sport (Richard Cashman) -- 9. Infrastructure (Simon Darcy) -- 10. The athletes village (Tony Sainsbury) -- 11. The inclusion and exclusion of athletes with an intellectual disability (Anne Jobling, Ian Jobling and Hayley Fitzgerald) -- PART 3: LEGACY -- 12. Impacts?national and international impacts (Simon Darcy and Richard Cashman) -- 13. Paralympic research agendas (Simon Darcy and Richard Cashman) -- Epilogue.

Publishers: Petersham, N.S.W. : Walla Walla Press in conjunction with the Australian Centre for Olympic Studies, University of Technology, Sydney, c2008.

Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. [246]-266.

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DDC: 796.48

MMS ID: 991000553939702626