Meeting with Sir Philip Craven
Last week, I was delighted to meet Sir Philip Craven, the President of the International Paralympic Committee since 2001 and a five-time Paralympian in wheelchair basketball, as well as swimming. He is a Member of the International Olympic Committee and a Board Member of the London 2012 Organising Committee. He was in Tokyo for the Asian Youth Paralympic Games - 700 athletes from 40 countries - and we talked about how Japan has developed strongly in this area over the past few years. Some of my other blog entries have touched on this theme. There is a greater awareness of the diversity of sporting experience now in Japan than I remember from 10 or 20 years ago. And of course, there is going to be intense focus in Japan over the next two weeks on the run-up to the announcement on 2 October of the host city for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, for which Tokyo is one of the four final bidders.
Posted at 10:29 18 September 2009 by David Warren | Comments[0]
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