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MALE ATHLETES [6 records]

Record 1 2020-06-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Bowling, Billiards and Other Ball Games
  • Disabled Sports
  • Games and Competitions (Sports)
CONT

Paralympic boccia is open to male and female athletes with severe locomotive disabilities of a cerebral or non-cerebral origin.

OBS

Boccia is governed by the Boccia International Sports Federation (BISFed) and is one of only two Paralympic sports (along with goalball) that have no counterpart in the Olympic program.

OBS

Boccia was introduced onto the Paralympic program in 1984. Today, it is played in over fifty countries.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Quilles, billards et autres jeux de boules
  • Sports adaptés
  • Jeux et compétitions (Sports)
CONT

La boccia paralympique est ouverte aux athlètes masculins et féminins ayant de graves handicaps locomoteurs d'origine cérébrale ou non cérébrale.

OBS

La boccia a été ajoutée au programme paralympique en 1984. Aujourd'hui, la boccia est pratiquée dans plus de 50 pays.

OBS

La boccia est une discipline de nature exclusivement paralympique, comme le goalball.

Spanish

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Record 2 2020-06-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weightlifting
  • Disabled Sports
  • Games and Competitions (Sports)
CONT

Initially exclusive to male competitors with spinal cord injuries, this sport has expanded to include men and women within a wider range of disability categories. In paralympic powerlifting the athletes compete in the bench press.

OBS

Powerlifting has been on the Paralympic Games program since 1984.

Key term(s)
  • paralympic power-lifting

French

Domaine(s)
  • Haltérophilie
  • Sports adaptés
  • Jeux et compétitions (Sports)
OBS

La discipline paralympique est le développé-couché, sur lequel les athlètes peuvent parfois soulever plus de trois fois leur poids de corps. Ce sport est ouvert aux hommes et aux femmes, répartis en catégories de poids de corps, dans une seule catégorie de handicaps mélangés.

OBS

La dynamophilie est au programme des Jeux paralympiques depuis 1984.

Spanish

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Record 3 2020-06-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
  • Disabled Sports
  • Games and Competitions (Sports)
OBS

Badminton will make its paralympic debut at Tokyo 2021. The sport is open for male and female athletes with a physical impairment to compete in singles, doubles and mixed doubles events.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
  • Sports adaptés
  • Jeux et compétitions (Sports)
OBS

Le sport fera ses débuts paralympiques à Tokyo 2021.

Spanish

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Record 4 2014-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Sports Regulations
  • Games and Competitions (Sports)
CONT

This means in effect that it is no longer necessary for the competitor to undergo the gender verification procedure as described in the Medical Guide in order to register for the FIS [Fédération internationale de ski] points list. Nevertheless, it is still possible for a gender verification certificate to be issued to any competitor who undergoes the examination as per the described procedure. Gender testing was introduced by FIS to prevent male athletes from competing in women's races and for women to compete on equal terms.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règlements généraux des sports
  • Jeux et compétitions (Sports)
CONT

Lors des Jeux olympiques de Mexico en 1968, les 844 concurrentes subissent le test du corpuscule de Barr. Les athlètes ayant passé avec succès l'essai reçoivent alors un certificat de féminité (CIO) [Comité international olympique] permettant [...] de ne pas repasser le test ultérieurement.

OBS

En 2000, le CIO [Comité international olympique] met fin au test de féminité systématique. Il ne sera plus pratiqué qu'en cas de «doutes visuels».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Reglamentos generales de los deportes
  • Juegos y competiciones (Deportes)
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Record 5 2005-08-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sports (General)
CONT

All NSOs, but two, have both women and men on their national teams: one has men athletes only, the other women athletes only.

OBS

men athletes: term generally used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • male athlete
  • man athlete

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports (Généralités)
CONT

Une équipe est exclusivement composée d'athlètes de sexe masculin et une autre d'athlètes de sexe féminin.

Key term(s)
  • athlète de sexe masculin

Spanish

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Record 6 1982-06-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Education Theory and Methods
DEF

a universe which is limited to that part of the whole universe which logically would be expected to provide data congruent with the purpose of an investigator; for example, the restricted universe of male American athletes instead of the whole universe of the male population of the United States in a study of personality factors in male athletes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
DEF

Univers limité au sous-ensemble susceptible de fournir l'information recherchée. Par exemple, pour étudier la santé mentale des enseignants ayant plus de vingt-cinq ans de fonction, on peut se limiter à l'univers restreint de ces enseignants.

Spanish

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