#Tokyo Paralympics 2020

[cuddleslover1738]

the paralympics are over quick post mascot yuri

[fireworkshuan]

Lesbian oc x canon Iki x Someity

[daikenkki]

Miraitowa and Someity by Alex13art

[randomanimaniacsfan]

Someity (tokyo 2020 paralympic mascot)

And tom (rio 2016 paralympic mascot)

[IDK WHY I STILL POST MY DRAWS HERE IF ITS FLOP SO MUCH]

[oneturfnews1]

All you need to know about Sumit Antil and India's Paralympics goal

The 2020 Tokyo Paralympics gold medallist and star Indian javelin thrower Sumit Antil wants to improve his world record and defend his title in the F64 category at the 2024 Paris Paralympics. The Paralympics will run from August 28 to September 8.

[opensky-tom]

Are only these people responsible for the wrongdoing? The top officials like a prime minister and so on should be accountable for this criminal act and betrayal.

[yusukeide]

東京2020パラリンピック開会式/閉会式

Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Opening Ceremony Behind the Scenes　東京2020パラリンピック開会式ができるまで Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Closing Ceremony Behind the Scenes 東京2020パラリンピック閉会式ができるまで

アクセスコーディネーターとして、障がいのある出演者を中心としたサポートや舞台進行等に従事

[dontforgetukraine]

First Ukrainian Paralympic teams arrive in Paris: men’s swimming, sitting volleyball, badminton, table tennis and rowing. Photo: National Sports Committee for the Disabled of Ukraine, Paralympic Committee

The Ukrainian Paralympic team has secured 126 licenses for this year’s Games. The national team comprises 235 members, including 140 athletes – 96 men, 44 women – and coaches, doctors, and masseurs. In comparison, Ukraine had 138 competitors at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. For the first time, the Ukrainian team will compete in 17 sports, including two debut events: boccia (pairs and individual events) and handcycle racing.

Source: Ukrainian Paralympians push through loss and devastation to make history in Paris

[bidisastersanji]

Was thinking about how the Olympic village is basically an orgy of strongest people from all over the world so let’s think of Olympic athletes Zoro and Sanji meet at the Olympic Games:

Zoro as a Japanese martial artist (karate? Judo? Taekwondo?) kind of athlete since Kendo is not an Olympic sport and fencing wouldn’t feel right for this man. He can have Law and Kiku as buddies from Japan on his team

Sanji as a French gymnast , coached by his adoptive father Zeff

Sanji spots Japan’s sexy flagbearer (a bit oiled up or shirtless maybe 😏?) during the opening ceremony and is very flustered. He doesn’t know Zoro notices him too- not just from then but because Sanji was in a promo video for Paris 2024, doing some hypnotizing gymnastics and looking gorgeous, sweaty and laughing on camera , and Zoro definitely didn’t pause and stare at his definition a couple dozen times, no sirree.

(Alternate idea: the flame needs to be passed on from Japan to France (Tokyo to Paris) What if they fight and extinguish it by accident and dislike each other at the start?)

They run into each other constantly at the Olympic village- staying in nearby rooms, at the cafeteria, at parties, etc, their friend groups accidentally mingling and bringing them together over the course of the games

The sexual tension is PALPABLE AS FUCK Sanji can’t stop staring at this infuriatingly sexy and usually composed man with an impressively large chest and arms while Zoro can’t stop thinking about getting between those corded muscles on those juicy thighs and die happy there

Zoro definitely attends Sanji’s events and gets so hot and bothered

Nami (team France, Friends with Sanji) notices Zoro staring at his ass of course and tries to get them to get it out of their system, bringing Sanji to a team Japan event or completion where Zoro is likely to attend- everyone runs with the urban myth that athletes at the Olympics perform better when having sex anyways right?

At a party, drunk after a win, Zoro and Sanji try to reason with themselves that that’s the reason they’re doing this, nothing more, as they fall into each others (cardboard?) beds again and again, seeking each other out (if they’re cardboard like for Tokyo 2020 they MUST break one)

There can be some second language English miscommunication, as a treat

Despite their emotional constipation Sanji can’t stop himself from being himself though and shows his sweet side, showing Zoro around and sharing French culture with him, and Zoro is enamoured as fuck, and Sanji tells him he’s always dreamt of coming to Japan, if not at least for the food-then for the culture (Fun fact Japan and France have a long long history of romanticizing the fuck out of each other so it’s so perfect)

Sanji originally plans to bring just Zoro on a romantic outing in Paris but ends up bringing the whole ragtag group they accidentally formed - Robin insists they need to visit the catacombs (lol) Chopper wants to eat Berthillon Ice cream, Usopp wants to visit the botanical gardens, etc robin wins and Chopper and Usopp are terrified the whole time because these are real human bones lol

Bonus stuff: Usopp is in sharpshooting or archery, Luffy is in trampoline, Chopper is in equestrian, Nami is in sailing, Robin is in table tennis (or is a coach?), Franky does Paralympic Greco-Roman wrestling, Brook does fencing, Jinbei does surfing

[waffles-my-beloved]

the crows as olympic athletes

kaz

hear me out — table tennis

he'd definitely be one of the more precise players

nicknamed "dirtyhands" for his use of unconventional techniques and trolling his opponents with snake shots and hidden spin

his role models include natalia partyka and ma long

like partyka, he competes in both the olympics and paralympics (classification 9)

inej

i think the obvious choice is artistic gymnastics; she'd be absolutely unbeatable in beam with her amazing balance

her fans have started calling her "the wraith", alluding to the way she twists through the air with unbelievable grace and strength

her biggest rival, dunyasha lazareva, is one of the only gymnasts who can match her in skill

jesper

skeet shooting

ithink the variability of the sport would definitely be something jesper prefers over something like air rifle/pistol

he's a star in the sport shooting world and made his olympic debut at 17 after switching sport from equestrian

(he met wylan at the riding club and the rest is history)

wylan

modern pentathlon

there was a brief scandal with his father and former pentathlete which put him in the public eye, but now he's famous only for his performance in the modern pentathlon

he first appeared at the youth olympic games where he claimed gold by a large margin

now at his first olympic games all eyes are on him as the favourite to win

nina

at tokyo 2020 she's just a random competitor in judo, unknown to most of the world — and then suddenly she shocks the entire world with a gold medal that almost looked easy

now everyone knows not to underestimate her, as she looks to defend her olympic title

matthias

i mean, he's made out of pure muscle, so is it really a surprise to see matthias in olympic wrestling?

he has made a name for himself as six feet and four inches of pure strength and power

he makes the team for the second time, up against competitors like jarl brum, three time olympic gold medallist

[gemsofgreece]

Tribute post for our Paralympic Athletes

who with their 13 medals pushed Greece up in the rankings 19 places compared to Tokyo 2020. It should be noted that with the (awful) system of counting only the golds, Greece is now in the 33th place whereas it is in the 23th place if the total of medals is counted.

Gold medallists:

Nasos Gkavelas (and his guide Yannis Nyfantopoulos) - Men's 100m - T11. With a time of 11.02, it is his second golden medal in a row after the Paralympiad of Tokyo 2020.

Athanasios Konstantinidis - Men's Shot Put - F32. At 54 years of age, this is one of the two medals he won in these Paralympic Games.

Alexandra Stamatopoulou - Women's 50m Backstroke - S4

Silver Medallists:

Athanasios Konstantinidis - Men's Club Throw - F32. Again!

Antonios Tsapatakis - Men's 100m Breaststroke - SB4

Leda Maria Manthopoulou - Women's 100m - T38. She happens to be the daughter of a loved Greek actor who passed away earlier this year.

Bronze Medallists:

Konstantinos Tzounis - Men's Discus Throw - F56

Theodora Paschalidou - Judo Women's -70 kg J1. First time Judo Greek win in the Paralympics!

Lazaros Stefanidis - Men's Shot Put - F32. Men's shot put was a Greek event this year huh

Christina Gkentzou - Taekwondo - Women K44 -65kg. First time Taekwondo Greek win in the Paralympics!

Grigorios Polychronidis (and ramp operator & wife Katerina Patroni) - Boccia - Men's Individual - BC3. This is his seventh (!) medal in Paralympic Games!!!

Emmanouil Stefanoudakis - Men's Javelin Throw - F54. This is his third medal after the bronze in London and the golden in Rio!

Eleni Papastamatopoulou - Taekwondo - Women K44 +65kg. Not only Greece got its first medals in Tawkwondo but it was in both light and heavy categories as well!

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Hold Hands by CassieMunoz

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Someity and tom [idk why i still post my draws here if flops so much)

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Brazil thrives and says goodbye to the 2024 Paralympic Games in the top five for the first time

Athletics and swimming stand out in the competition; both sports celebrate historic records

Brazil ended its participation in the Paris Paralympics among the top five countries on the medal table, beating its own podium record and celebrating the best ranking ever. There were 89 medals: 23 golds, 25 silvers and 38 bronzes. The country surpassed the number of golds in a single edition. The previous record – 22 medals – was set in Tokyo 2020.

The Brazilian Paralympic Committee (CPB, in Portuguese) expected these results, which foresaw good numbers for this competition. In the last four editions, the country had been in the top ten, which gave the CPB an optimistic projection for this edition, according to Rafael Reis, a specialist in Paralympic sport and doctoral student at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR, in Portuguese).

“They worked with some figures, including for the financing of Paralympic sports. So, it was more or less what the committee expected,” he says. 

In addition to the record number of podiums, Brazil celebrated two other historic achievements. The country beat the 200-medal mark in athletics, with Thiago Paulino's silver in the weight throw; and 150 in swimming, also with a silver medal. The winner was swimmer Gabriel Bandeira, in the men’s 100-meter backstroke. In total, Brazil returned home with 35 medals in swimming and 26 in athletics. 

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[stevebattle]

Miraitowa and Someity Tokyo 2020 Olympics mascot robots, (2019), Toyota, Japan. Miraitowa (ミライトワ) (above left) is the official mascot of the 2020 Summer Olympics, and Someity (ソメイティ) (above right) is the official mascot of the 2020 Summer Paralympics, held in Tokyo and postponed to 2021. "To make this the most innovative and technologically advanced Games in history, Tokyo 2020 and Toyota are working to develop a 'mascot robot'. In addition to welcoming athletes and guests to official venues, Toyota is currently considering plans for a new way for the Games to be enjoyed by children in Japan, via the mascot robot. The mascot robot will both allow expressions of arm movements via a remote-location robot, and share force-feedback from interactions. Via a camera mounted on the robot’s head, it can recognize people nearby, and once recognized, use its eyes to respond with/show a variety of expressions. By equipping the robot with miniature joint units across its entire body, the robot offers flexibility when being controlled, and the users can operate the robot safely and with high operational functionality."

"The Miraitowa and Someity character designs were a vast departure from the forms of standard bipedal robot theories. Compared to humanoid robots based on human proportions, such as the T-HR3 already in development by Toyota, they had extremely large heads and short limbs. While such stocky body shapes may add to the characters’ charm, a head heavy in relation to the body would sway with every motion and make the robot’s movements unstable. Some experts in the field of robotics went so far as to say that a bipedal robot could not be built with this body shape." – "Children's Dreams" a Driving Force behind Robot Mascot Development