Paralympian Hit by Self-Driving Bus in Athletes Village
Aramitsu Kitazono, 30, a visually impaired Japanese Paralympic athlete has been hit by a self-driving bus in the athletes village in Tokyo, sustaining injuries that take two weeks to recover.
Category: Paralympics
Tokyo Paralympic tennis matches start after 6-hour heat delay
Tokyo Paralympic wheelchair tennis matches on outdoor courts started on Friday after more than a six-hour delay due to intense heat in the Japanese capital.
In line with a special policy aimed at protecting players, organizers decided to suspend matches scheduled for all nine outdoor courts at Ariake Tennis Park as the temperature reached 33 C, a figure above what is considered safe on the heat stress index scale, at 11 a.m.
Disability News Japan Podcast Episode 78: ‘Overseas’ Person involved with Tokyo Paralympics with COVID hospitalized & Afghan Paralympians evacuated and safe, IPC says
Person involved with the Tokyo Paralympics hospitalized with COVID-19 and Afghan Paralympians evacuated are safe, IPC says
Swimmer Suzuki Wins Japan’s 1st Gold at Tokyo Paralympics, 1st Gold since London 2012
Takayuki Suzuki won a gold medal in the men’s 100-meter freestyle S4, a class for swimmers with physical impairments, in the Tokyo Paralympics on Thursday, giving Japan its first gold at the ongoing Tokyo Games.
Suzuki is also the first Japanese Paralympian to bag gold since the 2012 London Games.
Tokyo Paralympics confirm 1st COVID-19 hospitalization
A person from overseas linked with the Paralympics, but not an athlete, has been hospitalized after testing positive on Monday for the coronavirus. The patient is not displaying severe symptoms, committee spokesman Masanori Takaya said.
Afghan Paralympians evacuated and safe, IPC says
Afghanistan’s two Paralympic athletes have been safely evacuated from the country, the International Paralympic Committee said Wednesday, declining to specify their destination. The two taekwondo athletes, Zakia Khudadadi and Hossain Rasouli, were originally due to represent their country at the Tokyo Paralympics.
Children Start Watching Tokyo Paralympics at Venues
Japan started a special program Wednesday to allow schoolchildren to view Tokyo Paralympic events at venues as an exception to the policy of holding the Games without spectators.
14-yr-old Paralympic swimmer Miyuki Yamada wins Japan’s 1st medal in Tokyo, youngest Japanese Paralympian to reach podium
TOKYO – Miyuki Yamada won the host nation’s first medal of the Tokyo Paralympics on Wednesday, in the process becoming the youngest Japanese to reach the podium in the history of the games at just 14 years of age.
Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games opening ceremony to include Afghanistan flag
d a press conference that “it’s important to highlight” that having the flag at the ceremony on Tuesday night will also be a message of “peace” to the rest of the world, given that Afghan athletes are unable to compete after the Taliban seized control of the country.
“I had to be picked up and carried…To be honest, I didn’t like it”: A 1964 Tokyo Paralympian reflects on the Games
The 1964 Tokyo Paralympic Games offered Japanese people with disabilities a glimpse of an inclusive world, with one athlete saying that the event “opened a window in life.”
