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What challenges do Paralympic athletes face compared to their Olympic peers?

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What challenges do Paralympic athletes face compared to their Olympic peers?
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The Conversation
DOI 10.64628/aa.y9hug4mg5
Authors

Hoek, Dan, Sayers, Mark, Latella, Christopher

Abstract

Many Paralympic athletes have overcome significant obstacles to reach Paris, including funding, accessibility and high-performance training.

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 62. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 August 2026.
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