Abstract

MUNOZ-GALINDEZ, Efraín; LASSO-QUILINDO, Cristian Alexis  and  PEREZ-MUNOZ, Sandro. Adapted cycling: a beacon of light to heal physical and psychological wounds. Rev. colomb. soc. [online]. 2022, vol.45, n.2, pp.349-372.  Epub Jan 15, 2024. ISSN 0120-159X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcs.v45n2/92871.

This article is the result of a macro research project, whose work was carried out with students from a research seedbed, which is part of a Sports Training program at a university in Colombia; the objective of this study was to interpret how adapted sports allow signify the body of the athletes once more; a remarkable topic which has been inspected not only in individual sports but also in team sports from diverse leagues in Cauca Department (Colombia). The sport of tricycling has been respectfully delved, on this occasion aiming to a Cauca Cerebral Palsy Sports League through the life story of two athletes with disabilities linked to the "Liga Deportiva de Parálisis Cerebral del Cauca." (Lidepacc), these two athletes became disabled in their youth and took refuge in sport to seek new horizons and become socially visible. For the development of this research, a qualitative approach and the narrative biographical method were chosen, since the lifeline is reconstructed by going to the past, present, and future of the athlete, which allows interpreting how the different events experienced throughout his life may influence his identity and self-esteem, but most importantly until what extent sport has influenced their life projects. In this sense, the data was collected by going to biographical interviews, which were transcribed to be subsequently analyzed through the artisan method of "sábanas" under the grounded theory, which consists of making axial and selective open categories, being the latter ones the emerging categories which are sustained by the axial and open categories. For this article, adapted cycling is addressed in the selective category, a sport that signifies once again the non-legitimate body, supported by the axial categories; tricycling, a sport that allows looking forward; and the tricycle allows you to project yourself and travel other paths. This allows us to conclude that academic and family life, as well as adapted sports, have made it possible to overcome the social stigmas of disability while generating resilience processes that provide autonomy and social reintegration.

Keywords : adapted sports; body; disability; symbolic capital.

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