The Paris Paralympics are over, and the athletes are returning to their countries. Japan did well this year, winning 41 medals. The oldest Japanese winner was Ito Tomoya. He is 61, but he won the bronze medal in the 400-meter wheelchair race! He has an interesting story. When he bought a wheelchair for the first time, he ordered a racing wheelchair by mistake. Instead of returning it, however, he started racing! Another Japanese in the news is Oda Tokito. He is only 18, but he won the gold medal in the men’s singles in wheelchair tennis. He is the youngest player ever to win the gold in this sport. Oda was playing Alfie Hewett of the U.K., the world’s number 1 player, in the finals. I’m sure that Kunieda Shingo, the wheelchair tennis gold medalist of the Tokyo Paralympics, is proud of him.    (143 words)