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[iismmumbai]

It happened just before my karate world championship. 🥋 Only 3 months were left for the tournament. 📅 And I got myself injured. 🤕 My training stopped 🚫 and I started to fall behind. 😔

My dream of representing my country 🇮🇳 didn’t seem to be fulfilled. 💔 But, being an athlete, I always bounced back. 💪 And it didn’t differ this time as well. 😌

In flashback, as a 10-year-old boy 👦, I started my journey as a Karateka. 🥋 Playing Martial arts is not merely a sport to me, it’s an odyssey toward self-discovery. 🧘‍♂️ Training had become an integral part of life. ❤️ In 2014, I began participating in local and state-level championships 🏆 and excelled every time.

I ranked 1st in Kumite in the 5th KWF Maharashtra State Karate Championship in the category of Under 15 in 2017 🥇, and in 2018 I won KWF India’s 1st Mumbai & District Karate Championship. 🥇 In 2023, I also came 1st in the ‘Kumite’ BUJUTSU Maharashtra State Inter-Dojo Karate Championship. 🥇

Eventually, the time came to represent my country internationally ✈️, but obstacles came too in the form of injury. 🤕 Though I had to wait till I was in the form to train myself again, I didn’t stop going to my martial arts training center and used to watch other athletes’ training. 👀

Coming back to where I left. One month before the championship, I returned to my training. 💪 I participated in the KWF World Championship 2023 in Japan. 🇯🇵 I played till the semi-final. 😊 I can say that I never felt prouder in my life when representing my country on foreign soil. 🇮🇳❤️

Because of my passion for sports, I wanted to explore the business aspect of this field as well. 💼 That led me to pursue Sports Management at IISM. 🎓 Moreover, I aspire to grow as a sports industry expert and contribute to the sports business by developing the grassroots-level sports of India- one of my childhood dreams. ✨

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[rvm9876]

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[inside-sport]

The gold and the green: what do Paralympic medals mean for grassroots disability sport?

It is without question the Paralympic Games have claimed their legitimacy as elite sport. Few can deny the success team GB had in this summer’s spectacle, the Rio Paralympic Games. Team GB brought home an inspirational haul of 147 medals and as a country we bore witness to the spectacular athletic feats and against the odds stories of the Paralympians.  

But does all that shiny success distracts us from the true picture of grassroots disability sport?

If we trust the medals, media and political fanfare for the games anyone could be forgiven for assuming that the success at the Paralympic Games means that disability sport is thriving. However it is misguided to assume that Paralympic sport is synonymous with grassroots disability sport (Howe and Silva, 2016). Likewise assumptions could be made that the increased magnitude of games has provided a platform for social reform and in turn wholly positive consequences for people with disabilities (Braye, Dixon and Gibbons, 2013).

Perhaps a more critical insight into disability sport can be found behind the medals?

Sport England’s 2015-2016 Active People Survey paints a bleak picture offering that 1.56 million people with a disability play sport once a week (Sport England, 2016). That is pretty few and far between considering we have a population of over 11 million people with disabilities in the UK (GOV.UK, 2014).

So why is it that the Paralympics don’t inspire more people with disabilities to take up sport?

The Paralympic Games misrepresent disability.

The games offer to the world a shiny overly optimistic view what it is to be disabled, while omitting the realistic barriers that people with disabilities face on a day to day basis. From pain and illness to broader issues such as education, housing, welfare, employment, access and transport, are all typical issues of disability. It becomes easy to understand why sport is not a top priority.

Also.

The Paralympic portrayal of disability to a global audience is of people who are both heroic and, at the same time tragic (Bush et al, 2013). Media stories focus on these against the odds stories and hold little regard for those less evoking but more typical experiences of disability. In short, the games create a hierarchy of disability where many people with disabilities do not see themselves reflected (Howe and Silva, 2016. Purdue and Howe, 2012).

Like everybody else who isn’t Usain Bolt, we cannot look at someone in a wheelchair and assume they are the same as Hannah Cockcroft.

In short.

Evidence suggests that the Paralympics don’t inspire people with disabilities to participate in grassroots sport.

People with disabilities do not typically identify with the Paralympic athletes.

It’s time to stop hiding behind the medals, and start addressing the broader issues of disability sport. The offer of grassroots disability sport needs revising in terms of access and funding (King, 2014). It is purely tokenistic when a club or sports facility offers inclusive sports or sessions but there are no accessible and affordable transport links. To experience real change there needs to be an overhaul in who controls grassroots disability sport, too many people in control are non-disabled (Braye, Dixon and Gibbons, 2013). Could a shift in power to those who understand the nature and broader issues of disability begin to address the collective barriers that keep people with disabilities away from sport?

Perhaps it’s time to see the Paralympics for what they are. An elite sporting mega event and not as a cut and paste solution for increasing participation in disability sport.

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 Reference list:

Braye, S., Dixon, K., and Gibbons, T., 2013. ‘A mockery of equality’: an exploratory investigation into disabled activists’ views of the Paralympic Games. Disability & Society. 28 (7), 984-996.

Bush, A., Silk, A., Porter, J., and Howe, D., 2013. Disability [sport] and discourse: stories within the Paralympic legacy. Reflective Practice. 14(5), 632-647.

Great Britain. Office for Disability Issues, 2014. Official Statistics: Disability facts and figures [online]. London: GOV.UK. Available at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/disability-facts-and-figures/disability-facts-and-figures [Accessed 10 November 2016].

Howe, D., and Silva, C., 2016. The fiddle of using the Paralympic Games as a vehicle for expanding [dis]ability sport participation. Sport in Society. 0 (0). 1-12.

King, V., 2014. Come and join our club. Access by Design, 140 (1), 43-46.

Purdue, D., and Howe, D., 2012. Empower, inspire, achieve: (dis)empowerment and the Paralympic Games. Disability & Society. 27(7), 903-916.

Sport England, 2016. Once a week participation in sport [online]. London: Sport England. Available at: https://www.sportengland.org/media/10745/1x30_overall_factsheet_aps10q2.pdf [Accessed 10 November 2016].

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