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“We have wings” Open in Tokyo the Paralympics

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One month after the Summer Games another global show Almost 4,500 athletes give a voice to all the disabled in the world

ROME. In a world of lights, sounds, spectacles and joy, there is a 13-year-old girl in a one-winged wheelchair, who is afraid to get up from the ground but in the end takes flight. With this image Tokyo welcomes the Paralympics and the 4,400 athletes in search of a gold that gives a voice to the billion or more people with disabilities in the world. “We are 15 percent of the world population,” says the spot in all languages. Despite the limitations and the new wave of Covid on Tokyo, yesterday the smiles of those who have made their disability become a flag of revenge on life returned to the Japanese capital.

From the difficulties of the past decades, with the tail of Rio where the Paralympics were in danger for financial reasons, the light of Paralympism has grown to become a true inspiration in the world. For this, the IPC has given TV rights to the 49 countries of sub-Saharan Africa, NBC will broadcast 1,200 hours of the Games in the USA for the first time and the star-striped medalists will receive the same award as their Olympic colleagues, instead of a fifth. as it was until now. Japan’s pedagogical choice is also symbolic, far beyond Covid fears: Tokyo has announced that it still wants to implement the program that will bring thousands of children to the plants to follow the races, with tampons before entry, dedicated buses, masks and routes alone. to school to avoid contact.

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After the message of Emperor Naruhito who officially started the Games, the light show and theater followed with a runway, the scenes of many disabled athletes and artists who live their lives and try to convince the child in wheelchair with only one wing to take off, and then the ideal final flight, until the lighting of the brazier performed by the three Japanese athletes, the tennis player Yui Kamiji and the young promises Shunsuke Uchida (bowls) and Karin Morisaki (weight lifting). A Paralympics that for Italy will certainly also be a tribute to Alex Zanardi, a symbol of world paralympism and was seriously injured in an accident last year.

Leading the blue delegation were Bebe Vio and Federico Morlacchi: “Being ahead of everyone and carrying the flag with Bebe was a truly absurd emotion,” admitted the blue swimmer. «With Federico at a certain point the flag got stuck and it took us two hours to be able to wave it well. Beautiful everything, we are very honored to have had this role. We hope to have represented Italy in the best way », added Bebe Vio. Great absent, Afghanistan, whose flag was carried by a UNHCR official due to the inability of its athletes to represent the country.

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