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Plenty. Times are as per Tokyo, which is GMT+9. Add one more hour for Australia, minus 8 hours for the UK, scan from there for your timezone of choice.
9am - Swimming. Heats for freestyle ranging from 50m to 400m, the 100m butterfly and 100m breaststroke. The medals start from 5pm.
9am - Goalball. Brazil and Lithuania in the men’s comp start the first of seven games today.
9am - Wheelchair fencing. Preliminary bouts have just begun and run through straight into the quarterfinals. The semis and finals start from 15:30.
9am - Table tennis. A whole stack of singles matches happening through the next six hours.
10am - Wheelchair basketball. Algeria play China in the women’s group B match. Netherlands USA at 11:15. Great Britain and Canada at 14:25. Australia and Japan at 17:00. The men’s match between Spain and Korea is at 20:30.
10am - Track cycling. Qualifying for the individual pursuit categories starts here. The medal races start from 13:45.
11:30 - Wheelchair rugby. USA and New Zealand first up in the mixed preliminaries. Australia Denmark at 14:00, Great Britain Canada at 17:30, Japan France at 20:00.
Good indistinct time greeting to you all. We are, as Whoopi Goldberg may once have said, back in the habit.*
* The line does not appear in the film Sister Act II: Back in the Habit, but is solely a wordplay-based tagline to add to the film’s title.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2021/aug/25/tokyo-2020-paralympics-live-day-one-swimming-cycling-wheelchair-rugby-and-more-paralympic-games-news-latest-updates
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