With a colorful, sensitive and artistic-playful opening ceremony, the most extraordinary paralympic games have begun. Under the encouraging title We Have Wings (We have wings) offered the Japanese performers, including disabled, on Tuesday a colorful show that had something of a cheerful circus. The ceremony in front of Corona-conditionally empty spectators, but in the presence of Emperor Naruhito and honorary guests such as Ioc-President Thomas Bach, radiated warmth and should not only be disabled, but the whole pandemied world hope and at the same time courage for change.
I can not believe that we are actually here, said Andrew Parsons, President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), with a view of the one-year shift: From tomorrow, the Paralympic athletes start changing the world. Even Japan as the host hopes that the Paralympics will initiate a social change in its own country for inclusion and overcome discrimination.
Parsons thanked about the approximately 3400 athletes and athletes, official and honorary guests as well as around 2400 journalists present in the hosts in Japanese with the words Arigatou Japan, Arigatou Tokyo - Thank you Japan, thank you Tokyo. At 22:08 local time Kaiser Naruhito explained the XVI. Summer games for opened.
The stadium becomes the airport
The Olympic Stadium unlocked by the police, before the opening of the Olympic Games came to protests, turned into a lively Para Airport. Over the arena, a fireworks rose before the para-athletes and para athletes from 159 nations landed. First, the refugee team moved into the almost empty Olympic Stadium in compliance with the hygiene and distance rules. As a sign of solidarity with the Afghan para athletes, which can not come to Tokyo because of the Taliban's seizure of power, the flag of Afghanistan was worn by a volunteer in the stadium.
The German team, which was 92th place in the Japanese alphabet because of the phonetic order in the Japanese alphabet, was led by the five-time wheel Paralympics winner Michael Teuber and the Wheelchair Basketballer Mareike Miller. They contributed the German flag to the stadium together. Prosthesis printer Johannes Floors from Leverkusen was one of the six international athletes, which were allowed to carry the Paralympic flag.
That people can also grow beyond disabilities, told the opening ceremony as in a fairy tale. Protagonist was a girl in a wheelchair in the form of a small airplane that has only one wing. It had given up the dream of flying. But then she sees strange figures like a Japanese manga comic to herself, despite some physical disabilities before life, dancing and whirling to fetziger rock music. Inspired and cheered by them, the small plane begins to feel that it can fly too. This is the message of Paralympics.
Like boys in the pasture
At 22.50 local time, the paralympic fire was finally ignited in a hydrogen-filled container, which symbolizes the sun. Not only at the 133 German participants is the relief that the games can now take place with a year delay, huge. The athlete bursts literally against tension, said Friedhelm Julius Courier, the president of the German Disabled Sports Association. There's such a tingling in the air. That's like in spring when the young animals are left in the pasture, seekers described the anticipation in the team.
IPC President Parsons had referred to the Paralympics in Tokyo in advance as the most important in history. People with disabilities are disproportionately disproportionately affected by the pandemic. The games would give you a voice. He reaffirmed that the competitions with around 4400 athletes and athletes could safely go over the stage despite the infection numbers increased in Tokyo on high levels.
Even while the opening ceremony ran, Japanese media reported that the Corona emergency should be extended to eight other prefectures of the island empire to get the largest infection wave in control since the pandem.
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