Saturday, January 19, 2013
Zaragoza, Spain — On Thursday, Wikinews traveled to Zaragoza, Spain to interview the nation’s most decorated Paralympian and IPC Athlete Council representative Teresa Perales. A wide range of topics about the Paralympics and sport in Spain were discussed including the evolution of Paralympic sport, disability sport classification, funding support across all levels of elite sport including the Paralympics and Olympics, the role of sportspeople in politics, sponsorship issues, and issues of gender in Spanish sport.
Contents
- 1 Evolution of the Paralympics
- 2 Sponsorship
- 3 Classification
- 4 Mixing sport and politics
- 5 Funding Spanish sport
- 6 Being an elite female athlete
- 7 Related news
- 8 Sources