In these troublesome instances, motivation is crucial to maintain transferring ahead and Spanish Paralympian Alberto Seoane is doing simply that. A video of the Spanish desk tennis star, who took half within the Rio 2016 Paralympic Video games, was shared by the official Twitter deal with of the ITTF (Worldwide Desk Tennis Federation) on Sunday the place the para-athlete is seen sweating it out — alternating between hitting highly effective forehand and backhand pictures. The Spanish Paralympian, like many different athletes around the globe, would have been severely affected by the coronavirus pandemic with coaching and event schedules taking an enormous hit. Spain was one of many worst-hit international locations on the earth with over 2,50,000 circumstances and 28,403 deaths because of the coronavirus.
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics, scheduled to be held from July 24-August 9, was additionally postponed by a yr. This was the primary postponement of an Olympics in peacetime.
There may be nonetheless loads of doubt surrounding the Tokyo Video games. Many concern that the Video games might be scrapped altogether, with a number of senior Olympic officers saying the Tokyo Olympics should happen subsequent yr or in no way.
Tokyo 2020 organisers have refused to place a price ticket on the extra prices of suspending the Video games by one yr, however the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) has put aside $800 million.
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And if the Video games do happen with out the protection web of a broadly accessible vaccine, there might be monumental challenges in screening tens of hundreds of individuals from all corners of the world.
(With AFP inputs)
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