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Hellen Wawira Kariuki, Kenya's Paralympics Powerlifter trains at the Tokyo Convention Centre ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics that began yesterday. [Robin Toskin, Standard]

“Disability is not inability,” Hellen Wawira Kariuki says softly as she reflects on how individual resolve has lifted her to the pinnacle of human endeavor for excellence; the Paralympics.

“If I took the easy line of, yeah I am disabled and therefore I cannot pursue sports, I would be back home,” Wawira said after her final training session at the Tokyo Convention Centre, yesterday.

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