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June 2009 - February 2017
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- Research Associate of SCENARIO (Olympic and Paralympic Studies)
June 2009 - present
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O uso do espaço urbano, a construção e animação dos equipamentos de atividades físicas de esporte e lazer constituem eixo fundamental de uma política de saúde e de lazer esportivo. Sendo assim, o acesso aos espaços públicos é de extrema importância para exercer a cidadania dos usuários, promovendo a vida social, qualidade de vida e bem estar. Com i...
The practice of regular physical activity is associated with a series of physiological benefits at all stages of life (Warburton et al., 2006; Warburton & Bredin, 2017). However, recently, Piggin (2020) questioned how much physical activity should be observed only from the perspective of energy expenditure and effects on the body, thinking it as so...
O futebol feminino tem conquistado espaço no cenário mundial nos últimos anos, haja vista o aumento no número de praticantes, espectadores bem como o aumento de transmissão dos jogos pelos canais de TV. No Brasil, isso não é diferente, tendo o campeonato brasileiro como a principal competição da modalidade. Em se tratando de futebol o gol é o princ...
O Festival Paralímpico é coordenado pelo Comitê Paralímpico Brasileiro – CPB e busca promover atividades esportivas adaptadas para crianças e jovens com e sem deficiência dos 10 aos 17 anos em todo o Brasil. Em 2019, o Festival reuniu cerca de 11 mil jovens em 70 cidades das 27 unidades da federação. As atividades são desenvolvidas por professores...
O distanciamento e isolamento social durante a pandemia do novo coronavírus, está mudando a rotina e hábitos de pessoas em todo o mundo e requer paciência para conter a aproximação entre pessoas. É comum que algumas pessoas apresentem comportamentos de ansiedade, estresse e angústia e entre essas pessoas temos as Pessoas com Deficiência (PcD) que t...
A pandemia do COVID-19 teve início no final de 2019 e rapidamente se espalhou pelo mundo. De repente, medidas de distanciamento e isolamento social, higienização sanitária e de forte impacto econômico eram a realidade do país e do mundo. As atividades físicas e esportivas foram impactadas e gradativamente acompanhando as restrições impostas em cada...
The objective of this systematic review was to identify the rehabilitation programs used by armed conflict veterans and their approach to the Paralympic movement. The PRISMA protocol was followed by searching the following databases: ISI Web of Science ™, Scopus, SPORTDiscus and Periodical Capes. Of the 666 initial results found, 8 were selected fr...
The sport for students with disabilities constitutes a fundamental strategy for the development of the Paralympic Movement in Brazil. Among the actions carried out in this area, we underline the accomplishment of the Paralympics School Games, a sports competition for students with disabilities, organized by the Brazilian Paralympic Committee (CPB)...
RESUMO: O objetivo deste estudo é identificar os motivos que levam o atleta paralímpico brasileiro a continuar praticando sua modalidade esportiva. O estudo caracteriza-se como descritivo e abordagem qualitativa. A coleta de informações foi realizada através de entrevista semiestruturada. Participaram 20 atletas paralímpicos das modalidades Atletis...
The production of knowledge plays a key role in the creation, sharing, integration and construction of knowledge. In relation to mega events this production still needs some tweaking as the organization and standardization for data collection. The theme of urban infrastructure in the cities that host these mega events brings numerous questions abou...
Brazilian Paralympic sport is growing rapidly due to its results and to more people with disabilities desiring to join it. The purpose of this study is to describe the importance of financial support for Brazilian Paralympic athletes' careers. It is characterized as a descriptive study with a qualitative approach. Information was collected through...
O esporte paralímpico brasileiro vive um momento de destaque esportivo em virtude de suas recentes conquistas: oitavo lugar nos Jogos Paralímpicos do Rio de Janeiro em 2016 e líder por três edições consecutivas dos Jogos Para-Panamericanos (2007, 2011, 2015). A tecnologia esta cada vez mais presente no esporte paralímpico e busca o aprimoramento da...
The history of the Paralympic Movement begins remotely with World War II, when the war wounded were sent to Stoke Mandeville Hospital. Dr Ludwig Guttman recognised the physiological and psychological value of sports in the rehabilitation of these patients (Brittain 2010; Legg and Steadward 2011; Brittain 2012). In this way, Guttman brought those pa...
Brazil hosted the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2016. After London 2012, the Ministry of Sport (Ministério do Esporte, ME) launched the Brazilian Medals' Plan, which was only approved in 2013. It is a plan that seeks complementary support for teams and athletes that intend to compete in 2016. The objective of this article is to critically analyse...
The purpose of this study is to describe the importance of structural and human resources support for Brazilian Paralympic athletes. It is characterized as descriptive and qualitative approach. Data collection was conducted through semi-structured interviews. Twenty Paralympians, from both Athletics and Swimming modalities, participated of this res...
Research on people with disabilities can create, per times, strangeness and discomfort. However, it is necessary to encourage and bring to the fore debates about how the lives of people with disabilities in society are thought. In this sense, this special issue brings to our readers original articles on relevant topics in health sciences and sports...
This research aims to identify and cognize the contributions of the Sergipe Paralympic Sport Project (PPdSE), which is provide by Federal University of Sergipe (UFS) to athletes with eficiency. Four major groups were categorized, sporting practice (1), social and inclusive visibility (2), overcoming the deficient body through technological apparatu...
The Brazilian paralympic sport is living a moment of sporting highlight because of their recent achievements: eigth place in the Rio de Janeiro Paralympic Games 2016 and leader for three consecutive editions of the Para-PanAmerican Games (2007, 2011, 2015). These results makes Brazil as been viewed how a world paralympic power. The media can contri...
The financial support to the Elite Sports carried out historically through tax exemptions to the sports entities, in recent years has been added to a series of governmental actions, with emphasis on the agreements, the granting of scholarships to athletes and the Sports Incentive Law. This paper aims to describe the investment of federal public res...
The production of knowledge plays a key role in the creation, sharing, integration and construction of knowledge. In relation to mega events this production still needs some tweaking as the organization and standardization for data collection. The theme of urban infrastructure in the cities that host these mega events brings numerous questions abou...
T h e p u r p o s e o f t h e s t u d y i s t o d e s c r i b e t h e r o l e o f s p o r t i n t h e l i f e c o u r s e o f w o m e n a t h l e t e s w i t h disabilities. As a conceptual basis it used the life course theory, which is the path taken by the individual, marked by events over time. These events have a direct link with obtaining the...
The article’s aim is to report the process of creation, development and consolidation of the Paralympic Sports Observatory, which consists of a virtual collection on Paralympic sport. Data were obtained by using bibliographic review, documentary research, oral testimonies and imagery sources to the collection’s construction. Such methodological pro...
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1980-0037.2016v18n6p658
The aim of this study was to outline the physical fitness profile related to sport performance of Brazilian children and adolescents, stratified by sex. This is a descriptive cross-sectional study and information was obtained from the Projeto Esporte Brasil (PROESP-Br). The sample consisted of...
Brazil hosted the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2016. After London 2012, the Ministry of Sport (Ministério do Esporte, ME) launched the Brazilian Medals’ Plan, which was only approved in 2013. It is a plan that seeks complementary support for teams and athletes that intend to compete in 2016. The objective of this article is to critically analyse...
“Background: After the creation of the Brazilian Paralympic Committee (BPC) in 1995, the Brazilian Paralympic sport changed the management system betting in athletes results. The new committee converted the rehabilitation programmes and sports participation for sports performance. This structuring process was fundamental to the Paralympic sport a c...
The proximity of the Paralympic Games Rio 2016 opens the discussion about the possibility of building a career in Paralympic sport. This study aims to present the characteristics and challenges present in the sporting career of the Brazilian Paralympic athlete. The study was structured under three main guiding topics: the different moments of Paral...
This research forms part of the EU sponsored Carnival IRSES project coordinated by Coventry University, UK. The focus of this research is the sporting career of the Brazilian Paralympic athlete. The hosting of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games represents a new opportunity for Brazilian Paralympic athletes. In addition it is claimed that this increased...
The proximity of the Paralympic Games Rio 2016 opens the discussion about the possibility of building a career in Paralympic sport. This study aims to present the characteristics and challenges present in the sporting career of the Brazilian Paralympic athlete. The study was structured under three main guiding topics: the different moments of Paral...
A presente obra tem por finalidade discutir, analisar e propor meios de implementação da Agenda Olímpica 2020 do Comitê Olímpico Internacional em face aos desafios de renovação dos Jogos Olímpicos nos próximos cinco anos. Neste sentido, objetivou-se nos seus 30 tópicos de abordagem criar um ambiente de
inovação à vista da gestão de legados da Copa...
O voleibol é uma modalidade esportiva com 120 anos de existência. Foi criado por William George Morgan (1895) na cidade de Holyoke - Massachusetts (USA). Com o passar do tempo o voleibol sofreu várias modificações que o levaram de esporte menos fatigante, praticado apenas por homens de meia idade, a esporte do século XXI, mania nacional, segundo es...
O III Ciclo de debates em estudos olímpicos teve como tema da Copa do Mundo aos Jogos Olímpicos: o esporte, seu desenvolvimento e suas consequências. A temática teve como objetivo debater o desenvolvimento do esporte e as políticas aplicadas a partir dos megaeventos esportivos que estão ocorrendo no Brasil. Nesses termos, o evento procurou debater...
O objetivo foi identificar os indicadores de desempenho no voleibol sentado e utilizar estes indicadores na comparação do desempenho de três equipes em diferentes níveis competitivos. A amostra foi composta por 12 equipes em diferentes competições esportivas: alto rendimento internacional, alto rendimento nacional e nível intermediário nacional. Fo...
O objetivo foi identificar os indicadores de desempenho no voleibol sentado e utilizar estes indicadores na comparação do desempenho de três equipes em diferentes níveis competitivos. A amostra foi composta por 12 equipes em diferentes competições esportivas: alto rendimento internacional, alto rendimento nacional e nível intermediário nacional. Fo...
To analyze the organizational structure of paralympic sports in Brazil with the objective to provoke thoughts regarding their development towards high performance.
resgatarem em seu texto os primeiros movimentos em prol das pessoas com deficiência faz-nos entender com facilidade o papel do esporte dentro deste contexto. Ao dissertarem sobre os Jogos Paraolímpicos os autores apresentam contradições que são descritas em cinco momentos distintos no texto: guerra, de terapêutico a alto rendimento, classificação e...
The paper show the history influence of media in the Brazilian Paralympic History.
O Ciclismo Indoor (CI) tornou-se uma atividade indispensável nas academias pelos seus benefícios relacionados à aptidão cardiorrespiratória, à redução da gordura corporal e à minimização de riscos de doenças cardiovasculares (MELLO et al., 2003). Sendo assim, o objetivo deste estudo foi comparar o efeito de diferentes volumes de treinamento sobre a...
