Medical Support and Legacy of TOKYO 2020 Paralympic Games

Suyama T and Kikuch M

Published on: 2023-03-18

Abstract

The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games was opened with the belated one year under the worldwide spread of the infection of COVID-19. As for the medical support during the Games, Organizing Committees of Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Japanese Para-Sports Association structured and enforced measures of the prevention of transmission through their mutual cooperation. Besides, we enforced the thorough investigation of the entry into Japan and measures for the prevention of transmission for athletes, competition venues, athletic utensils, and especially in the Athletes’ Village. As a result of the said efforts, we were able to restrain the spread of the infection of COVID-19 to the minimum level. To establish the legacies of Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, we need to confirm the objective items of the Tokyo metropolitan Organizing Committee, ask the support of sports instructors for the impaired as well as of social welfare workers for the regional development of sports for the impaired. All of the said are for toward the further promotion of the symbiotic society of nonimpaired and impaired people as mentioned in Spirit in Motion of IPC.