Zakia Khoudadadi and Hossain Rasouli, the Afghan Paralympic athletes who had managed to leave Kabul on an Australian Air Force flight, arrived in Tokyo, just reaching the Olympic village.
ANSA learns this from sources of the Italian Paralympic Committee.
Zakia, a taekwondo athlete, is the first Afghan woman called to participate in the Paralympics.
"What happened is a crazy story, a sign of the resilience of Paralympic sport and it is an immense joy." Thus the president of the Italian Paralympic Committee (Cip), Luca Pancalli, comments to ANSA on the arrival at the Olympic village of the two Afghan athletes who escaped the horrors of Kabul. "It also fills us with joy that Zakia and Rasouli will be able to compete and this is also thanks to the fact that we have managed to move this situation with our weight in the world."
"Learning that Zakia has arrived at the Paralympic village is truly a beautiful thing, this is already a great victory. It is a great pleasure to be the first Afghan woman to participate in taekwondo." This is the comment of the president of the Italian Taekwondo Federation, Angelo Cito, commenting on the news that the two Afghan athletes, Zakia Khoudadadi and Hossain Rasouli, landed at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic village after managing to leave Kabul on an Australian Air Force flight . Zakia, a taekwondo athlete, is the first Afghan woman called to participate in the Paralympics: "It is a victory for sport, Olympic and Paralympic and for all that Afghan girls are going through right now", added Cito,among the first to mobilize for the cause of the two Afghan Paralympic athletes.
