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24 August - 5 September 2021

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a female sitting volleyball player tries to block a spike

Three-time Paralympian Stinissen hopes home Worlds will boost team

Para swimmer Keiichi Kimura and Proud Paralympian Miki Matheson speak to 120 children at event in Tokyo

More than 120 children attend Paralympic Movement education programme in Japan

1000 Days to Go until Tokyo 2020

Japanese capital using Paralympics to boost accessibility

Daisuke Ikezaki in action during the Men's Wheelchair Rugby Bronze Medal match.

Japanese wheelchair rugby veteran ready to lead young team to Paralympic gold

Two wooden emblems for Toyko 2020

BATON will see Athletes’ Village constructed using sustainable materials

The official logo of World Taekwondo

Federation promotes anti-doping education ahead of Tokyo 2020

On This Day: 8 November 1964

Japan aiming to honour Para sport pioneers with most inclusive Paralympic Games ever

Tokyo 2020 Nippon Festival

Event to promote Olympic and Paralympic Movements to be held ahead of next Summer Games

Tokyo 2020 emblems

Earth Chemical will offer agricultural support to Olympics and Paralympics

Agitos

Broadcasting deal covers many major Para sport events over next three years

Tokyo 2020 emblems

Operation BATON launched to support construction of Athletes’ Village

Two women posing, one of them in an electric wheelchair

Erina Chiba and Yuki Goto are first members of Japanese Paralympic broadcaster team

Children from the Akasaka Elementary School pose for picture in a goalball court with representatives from the IPC, NPC Japan and Nippon Foundation

IPC President visited open lesson of the Agitos Foundation education programme

two men shake hands across a table and smile

Next Summer Games aiming to be a ‘catalyst for change’

two female Para taekwondo fighters kick at each other

Great Britain win gold on home soil and big names miss out at the Copper Box

Norway's Birgit Skarstein, AS Women's Single Sculls heat, 2015 World Rowing Cup II Varese, Italy

Stamina and strength the key in first championships to feature 2,000m races

Peter Rosenmeier from Denmark plays at the London 2012 Paralympic Games

Paralympic and Olympic participation in Tokyo 2020 will both be led by National Olympic Committee

Graphic of Tokyo 2020 emblem being transformed

Images will feature in forthcoming ‘1,000 days to go’ milestone event

Man competing in R9 (mixed 50m rifle prone SH2) event

The inclusion comes just ahead of the next World Cup event in Osijek, Croatia

Lisa Gjessing - Taekwondo

Tokyo 2020 will be first Paralympic Games for the sport