Category: Paralympic Games

• The Relationship between the Australian Olympic Committee and the Australian Sports Commission

  By Greg Blood. Orginally published in Sporting Traditions, V35 (1) May 2018 Since the 2016 Rio Olympics, the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) and Australian Sports Commission (ASC) have had several very public disagreements regarding the funding and direction of high performance sport. In 1980, the Fraser Government requested the then Australian Olympic Federation to boycott…

  australiansportreflections

  May 1, 2020

  Athletes, Australian Institute of Sport, Australian Olympic Committee, Australian Sports Commission, Author – Greg Blood, Evaluation and Review, Funding, Government Policy, High Performance Sport, History, Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, Politics

• Rio Paralympics are a showcase of developments in medicine

  Originally pubkished in The Roar, 29 August 2016. The Paralympic Games are widely regarded as the second largest sporting event in the world. They are also a showcase of developments in medicine, science, and inclusion. You are unlikely to see many athletes with poliomyelitis (polio) at the Rio Paralympics but this has not always been…

  australiansportreflections

  April 26, 2020

  Author – Greg Blood, Disability sport, History, Paralympic Games, Paralympics Australia, Sport Science, Sports Medicine