“Insufficient funds after Tokyo Paralympic Games” Anxiety from the competition group February 2 21:58
Before the Tokyo Paralympic Games, a symposium on the spread of para-sports was held, and after the end of the Paralympic Games, a number of opinions were raised from the competition organizations that were concerned about lack of funds due to a decrease in sponsors.
On the 2nd, a symposium held in Tokyo was attended by officials from sports organizations working to spread parasports.
Among them, researchers pointed out that while the interest in para sports is increasing before the Tokyo Paralympic Games, about 60% of the competition organizations plan to reduce the scale of operation after the Paralympics ends it was done.
In the panel discussion that follows, if the position of parasports has shifted from rehabilitation and other welfare to pure sports from competition groups, it will be necessary to spend a lot of money to strengthen players or to win medals at the Tokyo Games Opinions arose over financial concerns that corporate sponsors could leave.
With regard to parasports, it has been decided that training facilities and joint offices exclusively used by paras, which are used by many competition groups, will be gradually closed after the end of the Tokyo Paralympic Games.
Kasoya Kobuchi of the Sasakawa Sports Foundation announced, “It is necessary to share the sense of crisis after the tournament and discuss countermeasures while the tailwind is blowing toward the Paralympic Games. The question is whether it will continue to spread. "