Access to powerchair sports

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Media coverage of the recent Paralympics in Tokyo drew popular attention to parasports, but significantly under-represented sports where athletes use powered mobility, such as boccia, powerchair soccer, and powerchair hockey.  These sports make participation accessible for those who use power wheelchairs to compete.  They do however challenge us to re-imagine elite athletic performance.  Our partners Amy Latimer and Jordan Herbison are working with provincial and federal partners in parasport to try to make both recreational and competitive power-chair sport programs available in more Canadian cities.  For a fuller discussion, see their editorial in the Conversation Canada.