Japan looking for a youth movement to power future Paralympic teams
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- With the Beijing Winter Games ending Sunday, Japan will turn its attention to discovering young athletes with disabilities who have t
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- With the Beijing Winter Games ending Sunday, Japan will turn its attention to discovering young athletes with disabilities who have t
With the Beijing Winter Games ending on March 13, Japan will turn its attention to discovering young athletes with disabilities who have the potential to become future Paralympic medalists.
Steps have been taken to create barrier-free facilities ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Games. But now that the Paralympics have begun, who is going to ensure such groundbreaking efforts continue?
The Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee appointed 12 new female members for its executive board on March 3, as it tries to reach a new gender diversity goal and shake a sexism scandal. The members include Naoko Takahashi, an Olympic marathon gold medalist, and Kuniko Obinata, a Paralympic alpine ski gold medalist. After former organizing committee chief Yoshiro Mori resigned from his position after coming under fire for making sexist remarks about women, the new committee president, Seiko Hashimoto, set a goal of raising the representation of women on its executive board to 40 p...
Tokyo, March 3 : The Tokyo Olympics organising committee nominated 12 women to its executive board in an effort to "restore trust" after former president