"Everything seemed very complicated": Journalist experiences of covering the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games
2021
Abstract
The Tokyo Paralympic Games differed from previous games. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was postponed for a year, and spectators could not be at the venue.
The media played a more important role than ever before because only they brought athletes with a disability to the attention of audiences around the world. In Tokyo 2020, 800 foreign journalists and photographers reported directly from the venue, in addition to the 500 local journalists and photographers, and over 1,600 journalists related to broadcasting.
Many more did not come to Japan at all due to strict measures against coronavirus. The chapter deals with the conditions for journalists at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo 2020.