The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) will host a “One Year to Go” ceremony for the Paralympic Games on Sunday 25 August 2019 at NHK Hall, to mark the one year milestone until the opening of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. At this ceremony, the design of the Paralympic athletes’ medals will be unveiled.
On the same day, a countdown event for the Paralympic Games will be held in Yoyogi Park attended by a number of Japanese and overseas para-athletes and Japanese artists. Visitors will be able to enjoy a demonstration by the athletes and try their hand at several para sports.
Prior to this event, Tokyo 2020 will hold a press briefing at the Foreign Press Center Japan on 21 August attended by Paralympic medallists, during which we will provide an update on the latest status of preparations for the Paralympic Games.
Ticket lottery begins on Aug. 22
The 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games organizing committee announced Tuesday they will begin accepting applications for the first phase of the Paralympic ticket lottery on Aug. 22.
Organizers revealed a detailed schedule for next summer’s Paralympics to be held from Aug. 25 to Sept. 6, 2020, in the Japanese capital, with ticket prices for groups and families starting at 500 yen (about $5).
The lowest-priced tickets are aimed at children under 12 years old, adults over 60 and family members with disabilities in order to attract a wide range of spectators.
Both the Paralympic opening and closing ceremonies will start at 8 p.m., while the first gold medal will be awarded on Aug. 26 in the women’s cycling individual pursuit.
Aug. 30, the first Sunday of the Paralympics, will see the most medal events of the tournament with 63, including the wheelchair rugby final.
The men’s and women’s marathons and the gold medal game of men’s wheelchair basketball — one of the most popular Paralympic sports — will be held on Sept. 6 before the closing ceremony.
Tokyo will become the first city to host the Summer Paralympics for a second time, following the 1964 Games.
After ending the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro without a gold medal, Japan will be looking for redemption on home soil at the 2020 edition.
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