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Japan's Paralympic hopefuls are struggling to train with regulations preventing them from working with partners or using facilities.
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Paralympic canoeist Monika Seryu looks to balance training, studies
Like other athletes and students around the world, the coronavirus pandemic has forced Paralympian Monika Seryu to review her priorities and make changes. The 22-year-old, who was eighth in her 2016 ...
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Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizers said Wednesday that a Paralympic Boccia test event will be held without athletes due to concerns over the current coronavirus outbreak. The event, originally scheduled as ...
Paralympics Feb 25, 2020
Organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics on Tuesday marked six months until the opening of the games. Athletes and officials commemorated the milestone with a ceremony at Ariake Nishi Gakuen in Tokyo's Koto Ward, one of the elementary schools selected for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's ...
Paralympics Feb 7, 2020
Flame lighting ceremonies to celebrate Paralympics to begin Aug. 13 ahead of torch relay
The first flames for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics will be lit in over 140 municipalities across 28 prefectures Aug. 13 in the run-up to the torch relay, the organizing committee said Thursday. The initial wave of ceremonies to celebrate the lighting of flames will be ...
Paralympics Feb 6, 2020
Iraq war veteran turned Paralympian hopes to make 2020 podium in Tokyo
Sixty years since the first Paralympic Games in Rome, the athletes are going back to its roots and helping military personnel make their traumatic transition back to postwar life. Melissa Stockwell, a former U.S. Army officer and two-time Paralympian, continues to share the inspiring story ...
Paralympics Feb 5, 2020
Paralympic basketball under threat as IPC instructs federation to reclassify players
Wheelchair basketball's governing body must reassess the eligibility of 50-75 players by late May or face removal of the sport from the Tokyo Games, an International Paralympic Committee official said Wednesday. The IPC has instructed the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation to act on concerns that ...
Paralympics Jan 29, 2020
Japanese Paralympic Committee chairman Junichi Kawai has been appointed chief of the Japanese delegation for the Tokyo Paralympics, the committee said Wednesday. Kawai, who is totally blind, won 21 medals including five golds in visually impaired swimming at six consecutive Summer Paralympics dating back to ...
Paralympics Jan 29, 2020
Ahead of Tokyo Paralympics, one coach teaches and preaches rewards of training disabled athletes
by Jim Allen
While some are looking for big rewards from the swell of interest to come from the Tokyo Paralympics, Toshiro Ueda is convinced a brighter future for people with disabilities — and society as a whole — is built through the acts of one individual ...
Paralympics Jan 3, 2020
Tokyo to see record number of competing nations in Paralympics
This year's Tokyo Paralympics will set a participation record with athletes from around 170 national organizing bodies competing, surpassing the record 164 bodies that took part in the 2012 London Games, a source with knowledge of the matter said Thursday. This raises hope that the ...
Paralympics Dec 11, 2019
International Paralympic Committee to make official 2020 Paralympic film with NHK
The International Paralympic Committee and Japan's public broadcaster NHK will team up to produce an official documentary film of the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games, the organizers said Wednesday. NHK, formally called Japan Broadcasting Corp., will first broadcast the documentary before the IPC releases it in ...
Paralympics Dec 5, 2019
Efforts are underway to familiarize the public with the rules of Paralympic sports through simulations making use of advanced technology and radio commentary ahead of the 2020 Games. Those involved in the projects believe the wider exposure could make the sports more fun to watch ...