Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on athletes with disabilities preparing for the Paralympic Games in Tokyo.
Piotr Kazimierz UrbańskiŁukasz SzeligaTomasz TasiemskiPublished in: BMC research notes (2021)
Athletes with disabilities have been strongly affected by the pandemic and the resultant lockdown. The majority of respondents reported that they trained at home (88.6%), whereas 60.2% of athletes trained outdoors, and 12% suspended their training regimens altogether. Only 5.4% of athletes had some access to sport facilities. The athletes reduced their weekly training time by almost half (9.4 h/week vs. 5.3 h/week), a statistically significant difference (t = 16.261, p < 0.001).