Esporte paralímpico: analisando suas contribuições nas (re)significações do atleta com deficiência

• Autor(a) principal: Benfica, Dallila Tâmara
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/3473
• topic: Esporte paralímpico; Deficiência; Inclusão; Paralympic sport; Disability; Inclusion; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::EDUCACAO FISICA

The Adapted Sports came up with the intention of assisting individuals with disabilities in physical rehabilitation, social and psychological. Over time, adherence to sports was adapted to grow and, consequently, the seriousness with which the movement developed. Professionalism in this context and the possibility of personal and social ascension may have contributed to make the parasports more attractive to its practitioners. The road to the highest place of the podium, traveled daily by athletes can be involved on several issues that directly or indirectly contribute to personal and professional growth of these athletes. This study is justified initially by the professional and personal involvement of the researcher with the disabled person and the adapted sports and conventional. The importance of this research is also based on the opportunity to disseminate knowledge about Paralympic Sport, to value the stories of some Brazilian athletes and reflect on the contributions of this phenomenon in the life of the individual as well as on the actions necessary for its development. In this sense, after historically contextualize the phenomenon in Brazil and Paralympic sports in the world, this study aimed to know the sports career of Brazilian and Paralympic athletes, from their narratives, analyze and discuss: the process of adherence to adapted sports, the difficulties faced by athletes throughout the sports career and the positive changes provided by parasports. We tried to also know what are the plans of professionals interviewed for the period that corresponds to the end of his sporting career. For this purpose, we performed a qualitative and descriptive technique which data collection was semi-structured interview. We interviewed ten Brazilian Paralympic athletes currently active and medals, at least one Paralimpíada. They all completed a sociodemographic questionnaire whose purpose was to profile the sample regarding age, sex, duration of sports practice, participation in competitions, associated clubs, etc. For data analysis technique was used for categorical analysis, which emerged through the discussions: I - Sport Grip; II - Difficulties experienced during the sports career; III - Changes in the personal; IV - Changes in the social sphere; e V - Retirement sport. Thus it was concluded that adherence to the sport of athletes was influenced by rehabilitation programs for coaches, trainers involved in parasports and family who knew the sport and recommended adapted to their loved disabled. Regarding the barriers faced, the testimony showed that prejudice against persons with disabilities, the lack of sponsors early in his career, the low diffusion media, the unpreparedness of professionals to work with the adapted sports and lack of accessibility in urban and sports were some complicating sports career. The positive changes offered by the sport permeated issues as better personal acceptance, increased economic opportunities, cultural and educational generated by professional sports, increased social recognition of the athlete and their identification as a hero, idol, role model. All these transformations according to the narratives, increased their personal and social relationships and contributed to the improvement of quality of life. On retirement, the majority of athletes want to remain involved in the context paradesportivo, but not everyone is getting ready to play professionally for future activities.