Physically challenged Athletes

With the Sydney Paralympics Games, we now face a physically challenged sports movement that is fast changing into elite sports. If we consider the technological advancement in the equipment and combining of classes, the sports movement will no doubt be developing parallel with its counterpart.

I found study which was about the effect of psychological technology on the confidence and the targets were mentally retarded athletes. The targets were 131mentally retarded people, which were registered as athletes 2008. They consisted of 95men and 36women, whose disability classes were from Class 1 to Class 4. The summary of study results are as follows. First, there is a positive correlation between psychological technology and confidence of mentally retarded athlete. Especially for male athletes, goal establishment and willpower give effect to confidence and for female athlete. Second, when considering disability type, it is found that the athlete with disability class 2 and 3 has a higher relation between psychological technology and confidence than the athlete with disability class 1.

As those result, the sport effects very positively to not only physically challenged athletes and also physically challenged people. To enable development in Physically challenged sports to make them have confidences, we need to improve the environment of the sports by increasing chance for athletes to compete in national and international games, development of life sports, support the physically challenged athletes to practice and phycially challenged people to enjoy and involve thier sports comfortably and easily. We also need to improve the conditions of those winning athletes.

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