Benchmark games
Subtitle: the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games
By: [edited by] Richard Cashman and Simon Darcy ; with a foreword by Karen Tighe.
Contributors: Cashman, Richard I.; Darcy, Simon.; University of Technology, Sydney. Australian Centre for Olympic Studies.; Olympic Games (27th : 2000 : Sydney, N.S.W.); Paralympics (11th : 2000 : Sydney, N.S.W.)
Publisher: Walla Walla Press in conjunction with the Australian Centre for Olympic Studies, University of Technology, Sydney
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Petersham, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781876718053
Subjects: Sports for people with disabilities -- Australia; Sports and tourism -- Australia
Other titles: Sydney 2000 paralympic games
Description: "Benchmark Games is unique in that there has been no previous study of the staging and the legacy of a particular Paralympic Games. The book documents and analyses the new benchmarks that were set at the time of the successful Sydney Paralympic Games."  "Benchmark Games explores many questions about the appeal of the Games to the community. It also considers the operation of disability sport and the place of the disability community in Australian life." --rear cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-266) and index.