Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games: closing ceremony – live!
by Geoff Lemon from World news | The Guardian on (#5P67A)
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1.38pm BST
The Paralympic flag is taken down from where it flies next to a huge Japanese flag. It is folded and handed to representatives from Paris 2024. Then a black-clad French wheelchair choir of sorts join in a silent song of dance, communicating with their arms and hands.
1.37pm BST
Will the Coronavirus pandemic be over in time for the XXIVth Olympic Winter Games and the XIIIth Paralympic Winter Games?" asks Kurt Perleberg by email.
Not a chance, Kurt, sorry. Vaccination coverage is nowhere on a global scale, and we have no idea yet how mutations might outpace vaccines.