Being Disabled, Becoming a Champion

Nicolas Bancel is a Professor in Sport History and Postcolonial Studies at the Sport Sciences Institute of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.Julie Cornaton holds a PhD in Sport Sciences from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.Anne Marcellini is a Professor in Sport Sociology and Disability Studies at the Sport Sciences Institute of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

• 1. Introduction: From the making of Paralympic champions to justification of the bio-technical improvement of man. The ideology of progress in action History of sport organizations and their actors 2. The divisive origins of sports for physically disabled people in Switzerland (1956–1968) 3. The development of Swiss wheelchair athletics. The key role of the Swiss Association of Paraplegics (1982-2015) 4. The manager, the doctor and the technician: political recognition and institutionalization of sport for the physically disabled in France (1968–1973) 5. Sports games for people with intellectual disabilities. Institutional analysis of an unusual international configuration Athletes lyrics: competitor, pioneer, researcher 6. The "fresh talk" of adapted sport athletes 7. The institutionalization of off-road wheelchair riding in France (1990-2015): ‘truly a sport of sharing and diversity’ 8. Athlete, anthropologist and advocate: moving towards a lifeworld where difference is celebrated Various bodies, modified bodies, modular bodies 9. Technology at the service of natural performance: cross analysis of the Oscar Pistorius and Caster Semenya cases 10. Prosthetic dreams: "Wow Effect", mechanical paradigm and modular body – prospects 2. on prosthetics 11. Ethics and enhancement in sport: becoming the fastest (human?) being