Tokyo Paralympics 2020 Opening Ceremony Live Streaming: How to watch live in India
Other Sports | August 24, 2021 13:36 ISTTokyo Paralympics 2020 Opening Ceremony: Find full details on when and where to watch the curtain-raiser event.
Tokyo Paralympics 2020 Opening Ceremony: Find full details on when and where to watch the curtain-raiser event.
High-jumper Mariyappan Thangavelu was on Tuesday replaced by javelin thrower Tek Chand as India's flag-bearer for the Paralympics opening ceremony.
India is sending its largest-ever contingent to Tokyo Paralympics with 54 athletes set to compete in nine disciplines.
The likes of star javelin thrower Devendra Jhajharia and high jumper Mariyappan Thangavelu -- both 2016 Rio Paralympics gold winners -- will lead the biggest ever contingent with India expecting at least 15 medals, including five gold.
Live Streaming Tokyo Paralympics 2020: Find full details on when and where to watch Tokyo Paralympics 2020.
At the 2020 Games, India will feature their biggest contingent comprising 54 athletes competing in nine disciplines in Tokyo. High jumper Mariyappan Thangavelu will be India’s flag-bearer in the opening ceremony.
Afghan athletes were forced to withdraw from the Games as all flights out of capital Kabul got cancelled after the Taliban seized control of the strife-torn nation.
India have won 12 medals, including four gold, and as many silver and bronze medals in the Summer Paralympics since its debut at the 1968 Games.
India will field its biggest contingent with 54 athletes set to compete in nine sports -- archery, athletics, badminton, canoeing, shooting, swimming, powerlifting, table tennis and taekwondo.
Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar has called on the country to wholeheartedly support the Indian athletes taking part in the Tokyo Paralympics and termed them "real life heroes".
Of the 30 cases reported on Sunday, 18 are residents of Japan while 12 were outsiders.
Gujarat duo of Bhavina Patel and Sonalben Patel will lead India's charge in table tennis at the Tokyo Paralympic Games beginning August 25.
No athlete has reported positive so far as the two cases from the Village are among the staff, though a large number of participants have reached Tokyo and some are still in quarantine.
54 Indian para-athletes will be participating in the Tokyo Paralympics, which begin on August 24.
His gold medal with a world record in the 2004 Athens Paralympics had almost gone unnoticed but Jhajharia is happy with the hype before the Tokyo Games.
The first batch of the Indian team, led by PCI President Deepa Malik, have arrived in Tokyo.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach is set to return to Tokyo to attend the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games.
The eight-member group was accorded a send-off at the Indira Gandhi International Airport by officials of Sports Ministry, Sports Authority of India (SAI) and Paralympic Committee of India (PCI).
District Magistrate of Gautam Budh Nagar (UP), Suhas LY, is set to represent India in the impending 2020 Tokyo Paralympics in badminton. The Summer Paralympics will begin from August 24 in Tokyo.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi encouraged para-athletes to not worry about the medals and how strong the opponent would be at the Tokyo Paralympics.
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