Afghan Paralympians to compete in Tokyo after evacuation ...Kuwait

Afghanistan's two Paralympic athletes have arrived in Tokyo and will compete at the Games, the International Paralympic Committee said Saturday. Zakia Khudadadi and Hossain Rasouli were evacuated last weekend to France from the Taliban-controlled country in a "major global operation", the IPC said. "Zakia and Hossain have continued to express their absolute desire to come and compete at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games," the committee's chief Andrew Parsons said in a statement. They "are now in Tokyo to fulfil their dreams, sending out a strong message of hope to many others around the world," he added. The pair arrived at Tokyo's Paralympic Village on Saturday evenin

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