Disabled gymnasts compete and often create viral performances. But the sport’s officials say they aren’t mounting a Paralympic bid for now.
Gymnastics was the marquee event of the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, so popular that some U.S. TV viewers rose very early to watch it live. Yet the sport didn’t get any airtime during the Paralympic Games a few weeks later—because it wasn’t in them.
The sport’s absence from the Paralympics is not owing to it being denied entry to the Games. While other top-billed Olympics sports are in the Paralympics and produce stars, organized gymnastics events for athletes with disabilities lag far behind track and field and swimming.
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