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Paralympic hopefuls skip national championships over COVID risk
Many of Japan's top para athletes are staying away from the event over fears that infections could lead to even more severe illnesses.
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Long-jumper Kaede Maegawa was one of a dozen models to take part in the event on the day the Paralympics were due to begin.
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IPC to streamline Tokyo Paralympics, but not cut corners on spectators
by Takaki Tominaga
International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons said the body is working to streamline next year's postponed Tokyo Paralympics but will cut no corners regarding athletes, competitions or spectators. With just a ...
Paralympics Aug 23, 2020
The German long jumper will be looking to claim a third straight gold medal when the Tokyo Paralympics take place next year.
Paralympics Aug 22, 2020
Search for pandemic solutions ongoing one year before Paralympics
With some para athletes particularly vulnerable to COVID-19, organizers planning the event face a difficult challenge.
Paralympics Aug 3, 2020
Organizers reveal competition schedule for delayed 2020 Paralympics
by Jason Coskrey
Tokyo 2020 organizers unveiled a mostly unchanged competition schedule for the delayed Summer Paralympics on Monday morning in Tokyo. The games, which had originally been scheduled to take place this summer, will run from Aug. 24 to Sept. 5 of 2021. The Paralympics were delayed ...
Paralympics May 19, 2020
Japan's Paralympic hopefuls are struggling to train with regulations preventing them from working with partners or using facilities.
Paralympics May 10, 2020
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 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics canoe event, has been selected to compete at the 2020 ...
Paralympics Feb 27, 2020
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 the Japan Para Championships Boccia and set to start on Friday at Ariake Gymnastics ...
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 ...