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In Winter more and more men and women can be seen exchanging their wheel chairs for specially adapted sport equipment for cross-country and downhill skiing. One wonders why wheelchair users only recently discovered how to practice winter sports since skiing has been popular since the beginning of this century in Switzerland.
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Kuhn, W., Deville, A. (1990). Winter Sports for Wheelchair Users. In: Doll-Tepper, G., Dahms, C., Doll, B., von Selzam, H. (eds) Adapted Physical Activity. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74873-8_17
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