Exp ériences et effets biographiques du sport adapté de haut niveau. Étude de trajectoires sportives et professionnelles d’athlètes catégorisés comme ayant une déficience intellectuelle

This article, based on an ethnographic research, offers to update any inflection or changes in life course and identity that can be generated for athletes labeled as intellectually disabled, by joining a career of “high-level sport”. The experience of sport intensification, improvement of success of competitive practice, leads to the expression of a pride that, outside the sport world, is often discreet, and concomitantly some stigma perdure. For most athletes, their experience in the France Center result in a distancing towards medico-social world, and create a desire for participation in adapted sport in long-term, contradicting their supposed desire for inclusion in the ordinary world.
Source: ALTER - European Journal of Disability Research - Category: Disability Source Type: research