Paralympic Games
24 August - 5 September 2021

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General view during the athletes parade as the Japan Paralympic Team is announced at the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

Tokyo 2020 announces its financial results 

Final expenditures for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games were less than the first version of the budget announced in December 2016 despite additional costs related to the event's postponement

Colorful display of Olympic Stadium during Closing Ceremony

No COVID-19 spread between participants and residents

'The results also show that, despite the criticisms and concerns expressed before the Games, Tokyo 2020 did not lead to a spreading event, let alone a super spreading event, and mass events can be delivered safely if the appropriate countermeasures are in place.'

Peter Kiss

Tokyo 2020: Takeaways from Para Canoe

Eighteen-year-old Hungarian Peter Pal Kiss became the youngest ever Para Canoe Paralympic gold medallist, and the first teenager to triumph, in the men’s KL1