Crowds in Tokyo watching the Blue Impulse air display team fly over trailing smoke in the blue, red and green colours of the Paralympic symbol. – AFP pic, August 24, 2021.
TOKYO’S Paralympic Games open today with athletes hoping to shatter stereotypes and world records despite a year-long pandemic delay and the spectre of a new wave of virus cases in Japan. The ongoing health crisis will hang over every aspect of the Games, with Japan’s Emperor Naruhito declaring the event open before a largely empty stadium as virus rules mean spectators are banned from almost all events.
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