Paralympics opening ceremony: pandemic, politics and plenty of fun | Paul MacInnes

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The opening to the Tokyo Paralympics offered a vision of disability that was not only empowering, but dynamic, imaginative and just a little wild

opening ceremony, at least in the imagination, was that of the Para Airport. After all the dispiriting pandemic processes every athlete has been forced to endure after getting off the plane in Japan, they might not have welcomed the reminder, but there you are.

 

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