Afghanistan's two athletes make an 'extremely emotional' arrival at the Tokyo Paralympic Village after a top-secret flight from Paris following their evacuation from Kabul
In a screengrab taken from a video, Afghan athletes Zakia Khudadadi, left, and Hossain Rasouli arrive at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, August 28, 2021.
Zakia Khudadadi and Hossain Rasouli arrived in Japan ready to compete at the Games, after leaving Taliban-controlled Afghanistan last weekend in a "major global operation". Khudadadi and Rasouli were welcomed to the athletes' village on Saturday night by IPC chief Andrew Parsons and IPC Athletes' Council chairperson Chelsey Gotell, as well as the Afghan team's chef de mission Arian Sadiqi."There were lots of tears from everyone in the room. It really was a remarkable meeting."The pair spent a week in Paris at a French sports ministry training centre following their evacuation from Kabul.
Instead, he will enter the T47 long jump final on Tuesday, while Khudadadi will compete in the women's taekwondo K44 -49kg category on Thursday."Every day we've checked in on primarily their mental health, because as you can imagine, the situation they've gone through in the last few days is a serious one," he said.
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