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Breaking Ice: Connecting Indigenous Culture and Sport Through Blind Hockey 

In partnership with Canadian Blind Hockey  June is National Indigenous History Month, a time to reflect on the strength, resilience, and contributions of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. It’s also a time to acknowledge the gaps that still exist, particularly in areas like sport, where Indigenous youth, especially those with disabilities, continue to face…

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The Paradox of Integration: Building a Panacea or Exacerbating a Partition?
February 10, 2016
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Jason Dunkerley
Canada prides itself for celebrating difference. In recent years, NSO’s too have embraced diversity by welcoming athletes with disabilities through a policy of integration intended to level the playing field and elicit podium success. Although this progressive approach aims to...
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Accessibility
Adapted Sport
Coaching
High Performance
Knowledge Mobilization

CANADIAN PARALYMPIC COACH PERCEPTION OF TEAM COHESION
December 9, 2015
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SIRC is pleased to be working together with Sport Canada to share current research on topics informing policy and promoting quality sport programming. This week we are sharing highlights of a recent article examining CANADIAN PARALYMPIC COACH PERCEPTION OF TEAM...
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Athlete Development
High Performance
Life Skills

Adjusting to Life After Sport – Easing the path for athletes in transition
September 16, 2015
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High performance athletes typically make a lot of sacrifices for their sport in all areas including family, education, finances, and sometimes even their bodies. Their lives are usually jam-packed with strict routines, intense training and busy competition schedules with the...
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Athlete Development
High Performance
Physical Health

The Placebo Effect: Why the mind is a powerful thing
March 18, 2015
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The advancement of sport science and sport medicine has brought many fields to work to together in order to maximize athletic performance. Integrated Support Teams (IST) are the norm of today in elite athletics. Such teams consist of physicians, nutritionists,...
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Anti-Doping
Fair Play
High Performance

The Athlete Biological Passport: Enhancing clean sport
March 4, 2015
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Promoting fair play and implementing ethical sport policies are among the options for promoting clean sport. Rules and regulations are created in order to protect the health and safety of participants – as well as the integrity of sport. However,...
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Athlete Development
High Performance
Mental Skills

Mindset: Mental Strategies to perform at your best
August 21, 2014
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Elite athletes have an exceptional ability to rise to the occasion when called upon to perform. Whether it is making that big shot to win the game or making a dazzling pass that scores the winning goal, most coaches want...
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High Performance

2014 Commonwealth Games
July 22, 2014
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July 23, 2014 marks the official opening of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. The Commonwealth Games are a tradition that started in in Hamilton, Ontario in 1930 where 11 countries had 400 athletes take part in 6 sports and...
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Equipment
High Performance

What do the different jerseys at the Tour de France mean?
July 21, 2014
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The Tour de France is the most prestigious event in all of cycling. The 2014 edition will lead riders through 21 stages, covering 3,664 kilometers. For each competitor, the goal is to be the rider wearing the yellow jersey, le...
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Athlete Development
High Performance
Sport Integrity

The cheater’s high: why do athletes cheat?
July 21, 2014
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Athletes train to be able to compete at their best with integrity, honesty and the hope their opponents have done the same, although sometimes this is not the case. Cheating is nothing new; resorting to anything to get an edge...
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Classification
Disability
High Performance
Para Sport

Women’s World Wheelchair Basketball Championships
July 21, 2014
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The Women’s World Wheelchair Basketball Championships which runs from June 20-28, are underway at the Mattamy Center in Toronto. This tournament will host 12 of the best women’s wheelchair basketball teams on the planet, all of whom hope to lay...
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