Paralympics

He's watching the Paralympics.

Shawn Cheshire is a blind cyclist who competed in the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She hopes to take part again in 2020 in Tokyo, Japan.

Tom is competing in the Paralympics.

At present, however, the Long Beach resident has more than records on his mind, mainly getting a representative U.S. team to the 1964 "paralympics" to be held in Tokyo Nov. 8–12. [Frank] Vecera is on a fund-raising drive for the six California athletes selected to perform on this year's team. The tab for transporting the six to Tokyo is $3,900.

The flames will then be joined together next week at Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire, the home of the Paralympics, and the united flame will make its final journey to London for the opening of the 14th Paralympic Games next Wednesday. […] The lighting ceremonies mark the start of the biggest Paralympics in history, which will see 4,200 Paralympians from 165 nations compete in London in sports including wheelchair racing, athletics, blind football and wheelchair rugby, and pit their wills against the finest talents in the world.