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Why Paralympics Committee needs open and honest soul-searching

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Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games - Athletics - Women's 1500m - T11 Round 1 - Heat 2 - Olympic Stadium, Tokyo, Japan - August 29, 2021. Nancy Chelangat Koech of Kenya and guide Geoffrey Kiplangat Rotich in action [Reuters, Molly Darlington]

Records have been broken, others re-written at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games. Day six of the Games provided the most records per day when 18 Paralympic records fell and 10 World records re-written.

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