A 'different' Games but Paralympians still hope to shine in Tokyo
The Tokyo Paralympics get under way on Tuesday, with Covid-19 cases rising in Japan and all parties acknowledging that there is still a challenge ahead.
This time, around 4,400 athletes from 162 national Paralympic committees will compete in 539 medal events across 22 sports. The original 'one year to go' festivities in 2019 featured successful mass participation events and showed a hunger among the Japanese public to get behind the Games. "We will have cases. But how we then control and react to the positive cases, and not let them spread the virus, will define whether we are successful or not.
Four sports - Para-canoe, Para-shooting, Para-table tennis and wheelchair fencing - have more medal events than Rio.
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