IT has been a strange time since I lost my Paralympic 100metres title to Felix Streng a year-and-a-half ago. After back-to-back Games gold medals, it was weird to be sharing.
Japanese municipalities that hosted overseas athletes for training camps before last summer s Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will be eligible for new subsidies aimed at promoting people-to-people exchanges with their respective partner countries, according to sources familiar with the matter
The battle of Beijing for snowboarder Keiji Okamoto ended Friday with a 13th-place finish in the banked slalom event, but the Japanese Paralympic debutant departs China with his head held high and knowing how he must improve.
In the 22 years since a cheating scandal rocked Paralympic sport in the wake of the Sydney Games, intellectually disabled athletes have been limited to marginal representation, something Japanese sports officials are eager to change.
Japan s Momoka Muraoka goes two for two at the Beijing Paralympics, adding the women s sitting super-G Alpine skiing gold to the downhill she won a day earlier.