TOKYO: When Afghan Paralympian Hossain Rasouli stepped onto the Tokyo track on Tuesday morning after escaping Taliban-held Kabul, fellow long jumper Roderick Townsend didn't feel rivalry but"joy".
So instead, he entered the long jump final, finishing last but symbolising for Townsend"so much about the Paralympic Games and what it means and what it stands for". Rasouli arrived in Tokyo with Afghan team-mate Zakia Khudadadi on Saturday, after leaving their Taliban-controlled homeland a week earlier in what Games chiefs called a"major global operation".
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