said that i was called for a meeting with her, i thought it was a general meeting. when she announced that me and john were both flag—bearers, i think we were both in all and didn't really know how to respond! —— in awe. the action at the paralympic games begins on wednesday, a year after originally planned owing to the covid—i9 pandemic. it takes place despite the tokyo 2020 official hidemasa nakamura saying last week that the infection situation injapan had deteriorated since the olympics. the international paralympic comittee president andrew parsons admits preparations haven't been easy. it's been really difficult, but we believe working together with health experts, the ioc and the japanese government and the organising committee, we came up with a very good set of countermeasures which prove to be efficient during the olympics, some were encouraged by that, but still something we have only seen in practice and we need to