What sports were added to the 2020 Paralympics?

There have been two new sports added to the Paralympics programme, both of which have equivalent events on the Olympics. Badminton will debut at the Yoyogi National Stadium and will include 14 events across six different classifications. The second debuting sport will be Taekwondo at the Makuhari Messe.Oct 5, 2021

Q. Who composed the theme song of India for Tokyo Paralympics 2020? Notes: Sanjeev Singh, who is a specially-abled (Divyang) cricketer, composed and sung the theme song of India for the Tokyo Paralympics. The theme song "Kar De Kamaal Tu" was launched by Anurag Thakur, the Sports Minister of India.

Q. What is the theme of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics? Notes: The organisers of Tokyo 2020 recently released the theme of this year's Olympics and Paralympics as 'United by Emotion'. The theme reflects the unifying power of sports, as per the organisers.

Miraitowa is named after the Japanese words for "future" (未来, mirai) and "eternity" (永久, towa), and Someity is named after someiyoshino (ソメイヨシノ), a type of cherry blossom. Someity's name also echoes the English phrase "so mighty". The mascots helped financing the Tokyo Games through merchandising and licensing deals.

S14 swimmers have an intellectual impairment, which typically leads to the athletes having difficulties with regards to pattern recognition, sequencing, and memory, or having a slower reaction time, which impact on sport performance in general.

Tokyo 1964The Medals

A design used since the 1928 Games in Amsterdam, created by Florentine artist Giuseppe Cassioli (ITA -1865-1942) and chosen after a competition organised by the International Olympic Committee in 1921.

But the Tokyo 2020 Medal Project has certainly been unique in its scale, marking the first time that a country's citizens have been proactively involved in donating the electronic devices used to make the medals, in line with the Games' Nationwide Participation Programmes.

22-year-old Krishna Nagar won India's fifth and final gold medal at the Tokyo Paralympics on the last day of the Games. He got the better of Hong Kong's Man Kai Chu in the men's singles SL6 final to become the second Indian shuttler after Bhagat to win a gold medal for India at the Paralympics.Dec 19, 2021

The symbol of the Paralympic Games is composed of three "agitos", coloured red, blue, and green, encircling a single point, on a white field. The agito ("I move" in Latin) is a symbol of movement in the shape of an asymmetrical crescent.