The teenager who won wheelchair slalom at the 1964 Tokyo Paralympic Games
She had the time of her life and won gold for Great Britain.
Like the 2020 cohort, the athletes didn't get to explore Tokyo, but in 1964 it wasn't due to a pandemic, it was all down to poor accessibility. To get to Japan, the wheelchair-users had to be carried onto the planes. Mark Bookman, a disability historian based in Tokyo, says that after World War Two, Japan's industrialisation had "resulted in a sharp spike in disability rates" and the nation needed to work out how to support its citizens.
Instead, they left it to grassroots disability organisations and companies. The results were chaotic and two days before the opening they hadn't raised the necessary money and didn't have enough medals."The Games were widely hailed as a success and generally credited with raising awareness of disability in Japan," Mark says.
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