IPC names 6 athletes to Tokyo Paralympic refugee team
According to the International Paralympic Committee, about 12 million of the over 82 million forcibly displaced people around the world have some degree of disability.
Category: Paralympics
Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Poster Unveiled, first time a poster was “selected to symbolise the Paralympic Games”
It is the first time that a separate Iconic Poster has been selected to symbolise the Paralympic Games.
Japan Starts Vaccinating Paralympic Athletes
Japanese athletes competing in this summer’s Tokyo Paralympics started receiving COVID-19 vaccine shots on Thursday.
Those who received shots Thursday included Junichi Kawai, president of the Japanese Paralympic Committee and chief of the Japanese delegation for the Tokyo Paralympics.
Paralympic athletes with intellectual disabilities arrive at Nagano training camp for Tokyo 2020 Games
The training camp, which is being held at a facility in Tomi City, Nagano Prefecture, at an altitude of 1,750 meters, includes seven athletes who have been selected to represent Japan in the para-athletics class for intellectual disabilities.
Measures required to ensure Tokyo 2020 Paralympic athletes transportation and accommodation in host towns not covered by Japanese national government
While basic costs for dealing with the novel coronavirus are being subsidized by the government, additional measures required to ensure safe transportation and accommodation of disabled athletes are not.
Wheelchair using physician supports accessible stadiums through Twitter
“Sports venues are places where people with and without disabilities can come together and enjoy [an event],” Yukishita said. “I want the Games to be the catalyst to bring about change, so people with disabilities will feel more comfortable going out more often.”
Japan’s visually impaired five-a-side mens soccer Paralympic team beats France 1-0
The World Grand Prix, an international five-player soccer tournament for the visually impaired, opened at Tennozu Park in Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo on May 30th, where the Japanese men’s team beat France 1-0. Japan’s team has qualified to participate in the Tokyo Paralympics.
Tokyo Paralympics Doctor Has Mixed Feelings amid Pandemic
“When I think about the feelings of athletes, I want the games to be held, but I also see difficulties,” said Takaaki Aoki, a 58-year-old specially appointed associate professor at the Department of Orthopedic Surgery of Gifu University School of Medicine.
International Paralyimic Committee Chief says Tokyo 2020 Games will be most important in history, bringing back “persons with disabilities to the center of the inclusion agenda”
“…we need to bring back persons with disabilities to the center of the inclusion agenda. We want to change the behavior of society towards persons with disabilities at a global level,” he said. “We are very ambitious. We want the games to change the world.”
Tokyo Marks 100 Days to Paralympics Opening
The Tokyo metropolitan government and others celebrated the 100-day countdown to the Aug. 24 opening of the Tokyo Paralympic Games on Sunday.
“We’ll make preparations to realize safe and secure games so that the event will be a light of hope,” Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said at a ceremony to mark the countdown.
