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South Korean athletes enter the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games opening ceremony held at the National Stadium (Olympic Stadium) in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan on the afternoon of the 24th.
The rider is Choi Ye-jin (Boccia) and his match partner, his mother, Moon Woo-young.
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Seiko Hashimoto, chairman of the Tokyo Paralympic Games Organizing Committee, delivers the remarks.
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A splendid celebratory performance is being held at the opening ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games.
The theme of the opening ceremony is 'We have wings'.
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The torch is burning in the torch.
The finalists were Yui Kamijji, Shunsuke Uchida, and Karin Morisaki.
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The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, the Paralympic Games, entered a fierce battle on the 13th with the opening ceremony held at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan.
The event, which has been postponed for a year along with the Olympics due to COVID-19, will continue until the 5th of next month.
4,403 athletes from 162 teams, including refugee teams from 161 countries around the world, participate, competing for 539 medals in 22 sports in a thrilling and fighting spirit that overcomes human limitations.
The opening ceremony was held for 3 hours under the theme of 'We have wings'.
In addition to the common theme of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, 'Forward', it contains a message of hope that we all have 'wings' to overcome hardships.
However, as the tournament was held on the 'no spectator principle' due to the spread of Corona 19 in Japan, the opening ceremony was held quietly without general spectators.
Only some domestic and foreign guests, including officials from the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and diplomatic envoys, attended and kept their seat.
As the keyword is 'wings', the opening ceremony was decorated with the concepts of 'flight' and 'airport'.
The opening ceremony was announced with an opening video, countdown, and fireworks under the title 'Emergency Preparation'.
The stadium has been described as 'Para Airport'.
It contains the meaning of a place where change begins on the most important stage, which becomes the hub of an aircraft.
A crew of 100 people of various ages, genders, races, and disabled and non-disabled people gathered to celebrate the opening of the Paralympic Games by dancing to a light rhythm.
The Japanese national flag was hoisted after the entry of major guests such as Emperor Naruhito, IPC Chairman Andrew Parsons, and IOC Chairman Thomas Bach, and the visually impaired singer-songwriter Hirari Sato sang the Japanese national anthem.
Performances of the traditional Japanese machine “Karakuri” and events expressing the Paralympic symbol Ajitos were also held, bringing life to the opening ceremony.
Then, after the lights and announcements reminiscent of the runway flowed, the 'highlight' of the opening ceremony, the team's entry, began.
A total of 162 teams participated in the Tokyo Paralympic Games, but 163 teams were introduced from the perspective of the squad.
In Afghanistan, where participation in the tournament was frustrated due to the control of the Islamic militant group, the Taliban, volunteers from the organizing committee marched in the fifth order carrying only the flag, and cheering applause erupted from the tournament officials and reporters in the quiet stadium.
The refugee team with 6 players entered first, and the South Korean team entered the 82nd place.
South Korea dispatched 159 athletes (86 athletes, 73 officers) to 14 sports in this tournament, but only 40 people, including team leader Joo Won-hong and some athletes, attended the opening ceremony.
The Korean national team, wearing an event uniform with a warm-coloured jeogori and Daenim pants, entered the opening ceremony with a bright face waving a Taegeukgi and a fan with 'KOREA' written on it.
The riders were Choi Ye-jin of the Boccia national team and his mother, Woo-young Moon, who was his match assistant, and fluttered the Taegeukgi at the vanguard.
After entering the team and performing for about an hour and a half, Seiko Hashimoto, chairman of the organizing committee, promised 'safe operation of the tournament' through the opening remarks.
In a congratulatory speech, IPC Chairman Parsons said to the athletes participating in the competition, "You are the best of humanity, and only you can decide what you become. Change comes from sports. Starting tomorrow, Paralympic athletes will change the world." left behind
As it started to rain during the opening ceremony, Emperor Naruhito announced that the tournament would be held.
The performance held in the middle of the opening ceremony expressed the process of taking off a small airplane with only one wing, but in the final performance of 'We Have Wings', this airplane, played by a girl in a wheelchair, took off vigorously. .
At the end of the opening ceremony, the torch was lit.
The torch, which combines flames brought from 47 prefectures in Japan and Stokemandeville, England, the birthplace of the Paralympic Games, was moved to the torch on that day and lit up the Tokyo sky brightly.
After runners including Japanese Paralympians and medical personnel, Yui Kamijji, bronze medalist in wheelchair tennis at Rio 2016, Suke Uchida of Boccia, and Karin Morisaki of weightlifter ignited the torch as the final igniter.
(Photo = Yonhap News)