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Murderball is a 2005 film about wheelchair rugby players, especially the rivalry between Canada and the US. The film was nominated for an Oscar and received positive reviews and a soundtrack album.
Murderball (bra: Murderball – Paixão e Glória [1] [2]; prt: Murderball – Espírito de Combate [3] ou Espírito de Combate [4]) é um documentário estadunidense de 2005, dirigido por Henry Alex Rubin e Dana Adam Shapiro, que concorreu ao Oscar de melhor documentário do ano.
Murderball: Directed by Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro. With Joe Soares, Robert Soares, Patti Soares, Mark Zupan. Quadriplegics, who play full-contact rugby in wheelchairs, overcome unimaginable obstacles to compete in the Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece.
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- Documentary, Sport
- Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro
- 2005-08-05
9 de abr. de 2021 · Murderball - Paixão e Glória é um filme dirigido por Henry Alex Rubin e Dana Adam Shapiro. Sinopse: Um documentário sobre a superação através do esporte de pessoas paraplégicas que ...
- Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro
- 2005
- 86
- 2 min
- History
- Rules
- Equipment
- Classification
- Active Countries
- International Competitions
- Variations
- In Popular Culture
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Wheelchair rugby was created to be a sport for persons with quadriplegia in 1976 by five Canadian wheelchair athletes, Gerry Terwin, Duncan Campbell, Randy Dueck, Paul LeJeune and Chris Sargent, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. At that time, wheelchair basketball was the most common team sport for wheelchair users. That sport's physical requirement for playe...
Wheelchair rugby is mostly played by two teams of up to twelve players. Only four players from each team may be on the court at any time. It is a mixed-gender sport, and both male and female athletes play on the same teams. Wheelchair rugby is played indoors on a hardwood court of the same measurements as a regulation basketballcourt—28 metres long...
Wheelchair rugby is played in a manual wheelchair. The rules include detailed specifications for the wheelchair. Players use custom-made sports wheelchairs that are specifically designed for wheelchair rugby. Key design features include a front bumper, designed to help strike and hold opposing wheelchairs, and wings, which are positioned in front o...
To be eligible to play wheelchair rugby, athletes must have some form of disability with a loss of function in both the upper limbs and lower limbs. The majority of wheelchair rugby athletes have spinal cord injuries at the level of their cervical vertebrae. Other eligible players have multiple amputations, polio, or neurological disorders such as ...
As of November 2022[update] there are thirty-one active countries playing wheelchair rugby and twenty-six more developing national teams,divided into three zones:
The major wheelchair rugby international competitions are Zone Championships, held in each odd-numbered year, and the World Championships held quadrennially in even-numbered years. Wheelchair rugby is also an included sport in regional events such as the Parapan American Games. Since 2000, it has been one of the sports of the Summer Paralympic Game...
The paralympic version of wheelchair rugby has been adapted with new variations on the rules developed. These variations have broadened the classification system to allow players with higher functionality to compete.
Wheelchair rugby was featured in the Oscar-nominated 2005 documentary Murderball. It was voted the #1 Top Sport Movie of all time by the movie review website Rotten Tomatoes. The character Jason Street in the NBC television show Friday Night Lights, having been paralyzed in a game of American football in the pilot, tries out for the United States q...
International Wheelchair Rugby Federation, Technical Commission (2006), International Rules for the Sport of Wheelchair Rugby, archived from the originalon 2006-08-25International Wheelchair Rugby Federation, Classification Commission (1999), International Wheelchair Rugby Classification Manual (2nd ed.), archived from the originalon 2011-01-14International Wheelchair Rugby Federation (2006), About Wheelchair Rugby, archived from the original on 2008-04-24, retrieved August 16,2006International Paralympic Committee (2006), Wheelchair rugby: About the sport, archived from the original on 2006-03-07, retrieved August 16,2006Wheelchair rugby, also known as murderball or quad rugby in the US, is a contact sport for athletes with a disability. Learn about its origins, gameplay, scoring, fouls and the International Wheelchair Rugby Federation.
Watch the trailer of Murderball, a documentary about the sport of wheelchair rugby and the athletes who play it. Learn about their stories of overcoming challenges, competing at the Olympics and breaking stereotypes.
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7 de jul. de 2005 · Murderball is a film that follows a wheelchair rugby team as they compete in the 2004 Athens Paralympic Games. It also explores their personal stories, challenges and feelings as physically disabled athletes.
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