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Today in a nutshell: the Roman god Janus of Tokyo briefings, looking backwards, looking forwards.
Next week’s key moments: your daily Tokyo briefings will resume on Monday, the Paralympics opening ceremony is on Tuesday 24 August at 8pm in Tokyo, and the sport begins the following day with track cycling, swimming, goalball, table
Tennis, wheelchair
basketball, wheelchair fencing and wheelchair rugby among the events that start straight away.