Zakia Khudadadi will compete within the ladies’s taekwondo K44-49kg class. Reuters
Tokyo:
Afghanistan’s two Paralympic athletes have arrived in Tokyo and can compete on the Video games, the Worldwide Paralympic Committee (IPC) stated at the moment.
“The Afghan athletes Zakia Khudadadi and Hossain Rasouli have been warmly welcomed to the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Village,” the IPC stated in an announcement.
With the swift fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, the pair had been among the many tens of hundreds trapped and unable to go away the nation.
However they have been evacuated final weekend and have been in Paris at a French sports activities ministry coaching centre, the IPC stated.
“Over the past 12 days, Zakia and Hossain have continued to specific their absolute want to return and compete on the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Video games,” stated IPC chief Andrew Parsons.
Earlier this week, the IPC had stated that the 2 had safely left Afghanistan however wouldn’t be competing on the Video games, as the main target was on their well-being.
On the opening ceremony on Tuesday, the Afghan flag had featured in a symbolic vogue, carried by a volunteer.
“We all the time knew there was a distant likelihood each athletes might take part at Tokyo 2020 which is why the Afghan flag was paraded at Tuesday’s Opening Ceremony,” Parsons stated.
“Our primary precedence has and all the time would be the well being and well-being of each athletes.”
Zakia Khudadadi will compete within the ladies’s taekwondo K44 -49kg class, which is scheduled for September 2.
Hossain Rasouli will run within the males’s 400m T47 athletics occasion on September 3, the IPC stated.
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