Sport Governance Exam III – Study Guide, Practice Questions & Exam
Review
What is the IPC's vision - ANS ✔✔IPC- international paralympic committee. Vision- to enable
Paralympic athlete to achieve sporting excellence and excite the world
Motto of Paralympic Games - ANS ✔✔"Spirit in Motion"
Competing athletes have a range of disabilities that include what? - ANS ✔✔Visual
impairments, cerebral palsy, amputations, spinal cord injuries, intellectual disabilities but
limited to stray away from Special Olympics
Athletes not competing and where they compete instead: - ANS ✔✔-Hearing impaired athletes:
Deaflympics
-Athletes with cognitive disabilities: Special Olympics
Current Sports on the Official Paralympic Programme- Winter Games - ANS ✔✔Alpine skating,
biathlon, ice sledge hockey, cross-country skiing, wheelchair curling
Current Sports on the Official Paralympic Programme- Summer Games - ANS ✔✔archery, judo,
table tennis, athletics, bocci, cycling, equestrian, football 5-a-side & 7-a-side, goal ball, para-
canoe, para-triathlon, powerlifting, rowing, sailing, shooting, swimming, volleyball(sitting),
wheelchair basketball/fencing/rugby/tennis
Sport for individuals with disabilities - ANS ✔✔A means to rehabilitate injured soldiers after
World War II
Stoke Mangeville Wheelchair Games - ANS ✔✔1948
, First Paralympic Games - ANS ✔✔1952 and have been held continuously every four years since
1960
1976 - ANS ✔✔First Winter Paralympic Games
International Sport Organization for the Disabled (ISOD) - ANS ✔✔1964
International Paralympic Committee (IPC) - ANS ✔✔1989
NPC means what - ANS ✔✔National Paralympic Committees
IFs mean what - ANS ✔✔International Federations
IPC vision statement - ANS ✔✔To Enable Paralympic Athletes to Achieve Sporting Excellence
and Inspire and Excite the World
Paralympic Sport - current policy issues - ANS ✔✔-changing technologies
-sport and human rights
-integration of athletes with disabilities into able-bodied sport
-wounded warriors
Issues with changing technology - ANS ✔✔-just because new equipment can be manufactured
that improves performance, should the equipment be allowed in competition
-Does using certain equipment provide one athlete an unfair advantage over the competition?
Overview of professional sport - ANS ✔✔Most visible of all our sport industry segments
- sport managers "the people who make the games happen"
Review
What is the IPC's vision - ANS ✔✔IPC- international paralympic committee. Vision- to enable
Paralympic athlete to achieve sporting excellence and excite the world
Motto of Paralympic Games - ANS ✔✔"Spirit in Motion"
Competing athletes have a range of disabilities that include what? - ANS ✔✔Visual
impairments, cerebral palsy, amputations, spinal cord injuries, intellectual disabilities but
limited to stray away from Special Olympics
Athletes not competing and where they compete instead: - ANS ✔✔-Hearing impaired athletes:
Deaflympics
-Athletes with cognitive disabilities: Special Olympics
Current Sports on the Official Paralympic Programme- Winter Games - ANS ✔✔Alpine skating,
biathlon, ice sledge hockey, cross-country skiing, wheelchair curling
Current Sports on the Official Paralympic Programme- Summer Games - ANS ✔✔archery, judo,
table tennis, athletics, bocci, cycling, equestrian, football 5-a-side & 7-a-side, goal ball, para-
canoe, para-triathlon, powerlifting, rowing, sailing, shooting, swimming, volleyball(sitting),
wheelchair basketball/fencing/rugby/tennis
Sport for individuals with disabilities - ANS ✔✔A means to rehabilitate injured soldiers after
World War II
Stoke Mangeville Wheelchair Games - ANS ✔✔1948
, First Paralympic Games - ANS ✔✔1952 and have been held continuously every four years since
1960
1976 - ANS ✔✔First Winter Paralympic Games
International Sport Organization for the Disabled (ISOD) - ANS ✔✔1964
International Paralympic Committee (IPC) - ANS ✔✔1989
NPC means what - ANS ✔✔National Paralympic Committees
IFs mean what - ANS ✔✔International Federations
IPC vision statement - ANS ✔✔To Enable Paralympic Athletes to Achieve Sporting Excellence
and Inspire and Excite the World
Paralympic Sport - current policy issues - ANS ✔✔-changing technologies
-sport and human rights
-integration of athletes with disabilities into able-bodied sport
-wounded warriors
Issues with changing technology - ANS ✔✔-just because new equipment can be manufactured
that improves performance, should the equipment be allowed in competition
-Does using certain equipment provide one athlete an unfair advantage over the competition?
Overview of professional sport - ANS ✔✔Most visible of all our sport industry segments
- sport managers "the people who make the games happen"
