* Host City: Tokyo, Japan* Motto: “United by Emotion”* Number of Athletes: 4,400 (expected)* Events: 540 in 22 sports* Opening Ceremony: On Tuesday, 24 August* Closing Ceremony: On Sunday, 5 September* Opened By: Emperor Naruhito (expected)* Stadium: Japan National Stadium# The 2021 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan is named ‘2020 Paralympic Games’. # The Tokyo Paralympics were originally scheduled to take place between 25 August and 6 September 2020. # The events are still being branded as Tokyo 2020 for marketing purposes. # This will mark the second Summer Paralympics to be hosted by Tokyo since the 1964 Games. As a result of the ban, WADA allows individually cleared Russian athletes to take part in the 2020 Summer Paralympics under a neutral banner, as instigated at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.

Source: The Nation August 17, 2021 16:18 UTC