Access of Wheelchair Users in Sportive Mega Events: The Case of Confederation Cup

Abstract This article aims to evaluate the Access conditions for wheelchair users in sporting mega-events. It will show the characterization of some attributes related with the walk, as the variables that express them, showing the studied group particularities. The data collect was made in June, 2013 by questionnaire application during the competitions of The World Confederation Cup realized in Rio de Janeiro on the Maracana Stadium. This paper establishes the principal attributes identified based on the literature review and the exploratory field research, signalizing the satisfaction with the security and comfort attributes, and also the main infrastructural problems at surroundings, that are the ramps leveling the streets to the sidewalks and the flowerbeds along of the public footpaths. Reinforcing the necessity of rethink the planning of the public spaces focusing in the Universal Design, but contemplating explicitly the studied group perceptions by the Service Quality concept.

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