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Tanni Grey-Thompson column: 'Tokyo can still be a step forward for Paralympics'


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Baroness Grey-Thompson, who won 11 Paralympic gold medals for Great Britain and competed at every summer Games from 1988 to 2004, will be part of the Radio 5 Live team in Japan and will be writing for BBC Sport during the Games.

Arriving in Tokyo, I wasn't entirely sure what to expect. It was a combination of relief that all the testing procedures for me were negative, and also relief that the Paralympic Games were going ahead.

There was always a tiny part at the back of my mind that somewhere along the line a second Games might be considered too much of a risk for Tokyo. Although I knew that a lot of the athletes had been flying out to Japan, it only felt real to me when I had picked up my accreditation.

The Paralympic journey from the highs of London 2012 to here has not been straightforward.

Before Rio 2016 and with Brazil in a tough economic situation, there was a real chance that those Games would not happen. But they turned it around and at the closing ceremony, it was described by the then International Paralympic Committee president Sir Philip Craven as "the people's Games".

Before the global pandemic, the expectation around the Tokyo Games was huge. Three years ago, I said that it would help the Paralympics take another big step forward with increased media coverage around the world.

Despite all that has happened, I still think these Games will take the movement to another level.

While the decision to postpone seemed a long time coming (there were complicated layers to the decision-making process), the athletes ended up stepping in to more unknowns.

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Athletes train to compete and no-one had experience of a lack of events and a block of training that would extend to more than a year. The dates of competition are usually known months, even years ahead and while athletes are often told to 'control the controllable', there is so much that it outside their sphere of influence.

During lockdown, athletes across the world have had to learn to be creative, away from some of the high-tech training centres, and had to find new ways of doing things.

Certainly the centralised facilities have changed since I was competing but we always had a gym set up at home. Some of the younger athletes didn't have that available to them so online coaching sessions became the order of the day.

I even joined in a couple of the online sessions organised by the rowing squad (not on a rowing machine, just with a stretchy band) and it was good to see the camaraderie of the different sports coming together.

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