Moscow hosted a festival called "TRP Without Borders". It was organized by the National Fund "Soprachastnost", which helps people with disabilities, the Medical University. Sechenov, as well as the Heraklion Foundation, which contributes to the development and implementation of innovations in sports and medicine.
The festival calls its mission to demonstrate the importance of the participation of people with disabilities in the TRP program, which is a kind of intermediate link between rehabilitation and Paralympic sports. In addition, the organizers strive to draw attention to the popularization and increase in the availability of the TRP complex for the general population.
The motto of the festival is “Let's get stronger together”. This is a unique inclusive event that brought together absolutely healthy people and those who have special needs, so that they not only can compete shoulder to shoulder, but also better understand each other, imbued with the problems of others that many often do not think about.
The entrance to the festival is open to everyone who wants to test their physical condition by passing the TRP standards. The competition program includes speed tests (regular running and on prostheses, wheelchair races), strength tests (standard pull-ups and in a lying position, push-ups, kettlebell lifting), as well as those that demonstrate agility, flexibility and coordination of movements.
The guests of the festival are athletes who have no vision, lost limbs, suffering from cerebral palsy, who took part in the Bolshoi Sport and Marathon projects. For them, passing the TRP within the framework of the festival is one of the stages of preparation for the hardest tests that they will face at the Ironstar competitions scheduled for early summer in Sochi. Also, the guests held master classes, gave mini-lectures on the nuances of sports for people with disabilities, as well as athletes accompanying disabled people in a bundle.
So far, the TRP standards for people with disabilities are at the stage of development, but there are already standards for those who have hearing and vision problems, as well as intellectual disabilities.
Festivals like these are very important and should be as massive as possible. The number of participants gathered in the capital was about half a thousand, of which about 2/5 are athletes with disabilities. The purpose of this festival is precisely to promote and disseminate inclusiveness, which means that ordinary and special people play sports together.
The guests of the festival were able to try themselves in various sports proposed by the organizers, in particular, in the classic Scandinavian walking and implying movement in wheelchairs, fencing and basketball in wheelchairs, para-workout and parapowerlifting. People were asked to see from their own experience how difficult it is for those who have limited physical abilities not only to play sports at the highest level, but even the most mundane things that most of them do not even pay attention to in everyday life.
Yulia Tolkacheva, founder of the Sport for Life Foundation, noted that her organization is very happy to support such a wonderful event, which brought together healthy people and those with special needs to communicate with each other, compete and just get charged cheerfulness and good mood. Such festivals demonstrate the unifying power of sport.
An extensive and exciting entertainment program was also prepared for the guests, including a bike show, a parade of Mini cars, as well as excellent musical accompaniment.
The participants of the festival were presented with gifts and prizes.
