Soaring above the ordinary in Rio 2016 – A reflection on the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games
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THEY love their kites in Rio de Janeiro. Not those huge, mass-produced garish ones but tiny, unobtrusive diamonds that catch the light and your eye sometimes as they swoop like swallows above the urban sprawl of a maddeningly contradictory city. In a way those kites were the perfect metaphor for the 2016 Paralympics. Para athletes […]