Adapted sport is a way of conveying the equality we human beings have the right to. Women and men express, communicate and better themselves through sports practice, reaching the excellence levels required to take part in the Paralympic Games.
The Fundación AndalucÃa OlÃmpica, a project that manages to come true thanks to the wishes of a whole society, reflected in the support given by Andalusian institutions and companies to help our best athletes reach the champions' podium, gives its support to the paralympic athletes too.
But to obtain success it is necessary, besides the appropriate training, to integrate different the researches, works and thinking processes that make up today's sports science. To that end, the Fundación AndalucÃa OlÃmpica holds in Malaga -the headquarters of its Paralympic Section-, the International Conferences on Adapted Sport, the last and second one held with a great success from 15 to 17 last March 2007. As in the first one, held in 2003, the main experts in each area have studied organizational, educational, technical and medical aspects, as well as the paralympic athletes themselves in their true reality.
On the other hand, one of the aims of the Conferences is to define the social circumstances that surround this sport phenomenon, increasingly rich and extended. The role of the media and of society as a whole is essential to make normal at street level something that is already so for its protagonists and for all those who know that all human beings are equal while at the same time being plural and varied.
The theme of the 2nd Conference has been :