Disability in the Global Sport Arena: A Sporting Chance

This book explores organizational and individual transformations for the inclusion of persons with disabilities in sport. It helps us understand how this small event involving only sixteen disabled British veterans led to the globalized 136-member 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing.

This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415488516
• ISBN13: 9780415488518
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"