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TOKYO: Brazil's Maciel Santos (center) competes with South Korea's Lee Yong-jin (not pictured) in the boccia individual BC2 class during the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games at Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo on Saturday. – AFPn

No game for old men: The precision art of Paralympic boccia
CHIBA: Italy's Beatrice Vio takes off her mask during a video review while competing against Russia's Ludmila Vasileva in the wheelchair fencing women's foil individual category B semi-final bout during the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games at Makuhari Messe Hall in Chiba yesterday. – AFPn

Superstar Vio repeats Rio gold as McFadden wins 18th medal
TOKYO: Members of the Paralympic Refugee team, Syrian-born Ibrahim al-Hussain (left), Iranian-born Shahrad Nasajpour (top-center), Syrian-origin Greece-born Alia Issa (right) and the team's chef de Mission Illeana Rodriguez (center) pose after a press conference in Tokyo yesterday, on the eve of the Tokyo Paralympic Games. - AFPn

First woman on Para refugee team urges others to try sport
TOKYO: People walk in front of a countdown clock for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games five days before the opening ceremony, outside Tokyo station in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPn

First virus case reported in Paralympic Village
TOKYO: Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks during a news conference regarding the COVID-19 coronavirus situation in the country from his official residence in Tokyo yesterday. - AFPn

Japan expands virus emergency to battle surge
PANJSHIR: Humvee vehicles from the Afghan Security Forces are pictured in Panjshir province in Afghanistan yesterday. – AFPn

Afghan turmoil leaves Paralympic athletes unable to compete; Cricket series in doubt
MOMBASA: Kenyan para-rower athlete Asiya Mohammed starts warming up with her boat during her training session at Tudor Water Sports Hotel in Mombasa, Kenya on July 26, 2021 ahead of the preparations for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. - AFPnn

Kenyan rower's journey from childhood tragedy to Paralympic hope
RIKUZENTAKATA: Torchbearer Miu Takahashi lights a lantern during a flame-lighting ceremony for the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in Iwate prefecture yesterday. - AFP n

Paralympic flame ceremonies begin as virus surges in Japan
LIBREVILLE: Gabonese paralympic athlete Davy Moukagni trains for the 100m at the Owendo Technical High School in Libreville on February 5, 2021, in preparation for the Tokyo Paralympic Games scheduled for late August 2021. - AFPn

Old bikes, wooden stools: Gabon Paralympic athletes 'make do'
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