Paralympic Games

Accessibility

• Sydney Olympic Park Authority Disability Action Plan 2009-2013   Download from website.
• The Games for Everyone? Planning for Disability and Access at the Sydney 2000 Paralympic & Olympic Games (12p. PDF) - Article by Simon Darcy, M.Env. Planning, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
• The 2010 Paralympic Games improve Vancouver's accessibility agenda, 2007 (11p. PDF) - Article by Jennifer Langan.

Associations, Committees

• Australian Federation of Disability Organisations
• Australian Paralympic Committee
• ParalympicsGB 
• International Paralympic Committee

Beijing 2008

• Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games

Environmental issues

• The Environmental Sustainability of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games (24p. PDF) - London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG).
• Towards a One Planet Olympics: Achieving the first sustainable Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (7p. PDF) - Joint initiative of London 2012, WWF and BioRegional.

Planning

• Passing the Olympic Games Learning Legacies torch: Creating a website to engage students and to build education bridges between the 2010, 2012 and 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Games (Journal article) by Terry Hood and Maynard Kirkpatrick  in Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and  Tourism Education, Vol.9, No.1, Apr 2010.  Available for download from journal website.
• Preparations for the Olympics and Paralympics and inclusion of people with disabilities: the Australian experience - Article by Dr Sev Ozdowski OAM Human Rights Commissioner and Acting Disability Discrimination Commissioner, Australia. 

Information resources

• Australian Centre for Olympic Studies, hosted by UTS School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism aims to provide a national focus for Olympic studies in Australia.
• BBC Paralympics - main Paralympic Games website from the BBC.
• GamesInfo - archived sites from the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
• Historical overview of the Paralympics, Special Olympics, and Deaflympics from The Free Library.
• Information Resources on the Olympic Games, 2008 - America.gov online resource.
• Internet Resources for Olympic Studies - Intute:Social Sciences, University of Bristol and the University of Birmingham, UK.
• IOC (International Olympics Committee) Library access to the official publications of the Olympic Movement.
• Olympic Archives -  documents and publications from the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) available in the Olympic and Event Studies Room at the UTS Kuring-gai Campus Library, Lindfield, Sydney.
• The Olympic Games: A Bibliography (173p. PDF) Compiled by A. J. Veal and K. Toohey, University of Technology, Sydney.©  Last updated September 2008.
• Olympic Links - Australian Centre for Olympic Studies webpage.
• The Olympics: A Guide to Reference Sources held in the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
• Paralympian (2001-2002) - Archived fortnightly Update publication from the Australian Paralympic Committee for the Paralympic Games - Sydney 2000.
• Paralympic Games from Wikipediia.
• The Paralympic Games - A bibliography (237KB PDF, 51 pages) Compiled by Alison Burkhardt in conjunction with Simon Darcy, University of Technology, Sydney.©  Last updated May 2009.
• Planet Sport (2008-2012) - Paralympic Games - UK website of links to Paralympics resources.  
• Resource Guide to the Olympic Games, 2006 (29p. PDF) - Higher Education Academy (UK) guide includes material primarily from either academic books or articles from peer reviewed, popular journals. 

Law and Legal issues

• Disability Discrimination Act 1992 - from the Attorney-General's Department ComLaw website.
• Disability Rights - from the Australian Human Rights Commission website.
• EU Disability Action Plan - from the European Commission website.

London 2012

• The budget for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, 2008 (40p. PDF) -  Fourteenth Report of Session 2007-08, House of Commons, Committee of Public Accounts.
• The Environmental Sustainability of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games (24p. PDF) - London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG).
• London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games: funding and legacy, Second Report of Session 2006-07 (62p. PDF) - House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee.
• London 2012 Paralympic Games - Official website.
• Preparations for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games: Progress Report June 2008 (56p. PDF) - National Audit Office.
• Preparations for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games - Risk assessment and management, 2007 (42p. PDF) - National Audit Office.
• Sustainability management for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London 2012, 2007 (91p. PDF) Birte Berlemann, Centre for Sustainability Management.  If link broken, copy title into Google.    
• Towards a One Planet Olympics: Achieving the first sustainable Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (7p. PDF) - Joint initiative of London 2012, WWF and BioRegional.
• World Class Customer Service.... for 2012 and beyond - Research and recommendations regarding how best to raise customer service standards across the visitor economy in advance of the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.  Download available. 

Rio 2016

• Rio Paralympics 2016

Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games

• Sochi 2014 - Official website. 

Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games

• Meeting the Challenge: A carbon neutral 2010 winter games - a discussion paper for the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC).  Download from the David Suzuki Foundation website.
• Olympic Costs and Benefits: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Proposed Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, 2003 (33p. PDF) Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, BC Office.
• The 2010 Paralympic Games improve Vancouver's accessibility agenda, 2007 (11p. PDF) - Article by Jennifer Langan.
• Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games - from the International Paralympic Committee website.