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With just over a year to go until the postponed Tokyo Paralympics, athletes are looking for tactics to adapt their education systems to coronavirus restrictions and stay in the most sensible way while protecting themselves.
Deferral headaches reverberate beyond the games themselves and bring to chaos the education of athletes. The forced pause has complicated the task to which they have not yet been classified.
The new dates of the Paralympic Games were shown at the end of March. They will now take a position from 24 August to 5 September 2021, 365 days from Monday and almost one year later than planned.
Paradports have resumed amid a new normal, with occasions slowly resuming internationally. The US Open wheelchair tennis tournament in New York in September and the Paratriathlon World Series race in Montreal in October are two of the most prominent examples.
Revised dates and regulations for the Tokyo Games qualifying are being revealed, with the latest rowing qualifying regatta to be held in Gavirate, Italy, from May 7 to 9 next year, and the final canoe qualifying level is scheduled for May 12-16 next year. Year. Szeged, Hungary.
The International Paralympic Committee noted that athletes with disabilities would likely be more vulnerable to the worst effects of COVID-19, the disease suffered by others affected by the virus. Therefore, even before the question of how the Paralympic Games can be held, the question arises of how education and qualification skills can be safely organized.
The German sports club and Paralympic educational centre TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen, the club that houses Paralympic champions Markus Rehm and Heinrich Popow, was forced to temporarily close in mid-March.
Jorg Frischmann, the club’s sporting director, said that only a restricted number of elite athletes had had to go to the facility since April under strict fitness and protection protocols that restrict use to a maximum of two hours, as established by their children.
In Brazil, which has the current number of coronavirus cases worldwide after the United States, team Brazil’s educational facility reopened in July, but the most sensible technical officer of the Brazilian Paralympic Committee, Jonas Freire, said athletes were limited in how to train. .
With bans related to coronavirus, it will be some time before athletes can compete abroad, he said.
Many National Olympic and Paralympic Committees will have implemented hygiene and infection rules that athletes must comply with to ensure that they can resume education and the festival safely.
But considerations have been raised that para-athletes may face a greater threat of serious consequences if they contract COVID-19, and athletes with specific disabilities will have to take stricter precautions to protect themselves.
A source of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee said that the access needs for all traveling athletes would be the same, and that Olympic and Paralympic athletes and similar parties would have to present a negative result of the polymer former’s chain reaction verification to enter the country.
But other people with severe disabilities, such as cervical spinal injuries or cerebral palsy, have other fitness disorders, such as respiratory disorders, that put them in a high-risk group.
Visually impaired athletes will need to do more tactile interactions with their environment, feeling with their hands elements and potentially virus-carrying surfaces to navigate and read, and physical distance creates disorders for athletes who want a seer guide.
“Strategic testing systems will be needed,” said another source close to the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee, adding that athletes and officers should be separated at venues and that the devices shared among athletes will want to be cleaned and disinfected.
A government-based coronavirus management organization will meet next month to review expert reviews and discuss a return to the game for other people with disabilities.
But the spaces of fear are limited to the approximately 4,400 athletes who will compete in the Paralympic Games, we will also have to take steps to safely receive spectators, if any.
To date, approximately 970,000 Paralympics tickets have been sold on the official ticketing website. Delayed match tickets are still valid for events equivalent to 2021, but those who cannot participate are eligible for a refund.
Organizers are exploring a number of features that will make the Tokyo Games as safe as possible during a pandemic, such as reducing the number of spectators and adjusting seats.
In early February, before Japan showed its first coronavirus death and before the announcement of the postponement of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Japanese Paralympic Committee set out to win a record 20 gold medals at home.
But with so many unknowns around the organization of the Games, adding the athletes and nations that will qualify and participate, it is difficult to know that these goals remain realistic.
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