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Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games: opening ceremony – live updates!

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Paralympics trivia

Inspired by Martin’s mention of dartchery, I’m wondering if anyone else has any great Paralympics trivia. If so, drop me an email to Paul.Campbell@theguardian.com.

Our daily Paralympics email

If you didn’t sign up for Martin Belam’s daily Olympics email, you missed out. But all is not lost. He is back for the Paralympics.

Between 1960 and 1980, the Paralympic programme included a sport known as dartchery, where athletes in wheelchairs fired arrows at a target arranged like a dartboard from a distance of thirty metres, with the scoring working like a 301 game of darts.

Related: Tokyo 2020 Paralympics briefing: the final countdown to the opening ceremony

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