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Does the Paralympics help disabled women?
There were five nations at the Rio Paralympics that didn’t send any female athletes. That would lead to a ban at the Olympics but not at the Paralympics.
The BBC’s Mani Djazmi, International Paralympic Committee member Ann Cody and Miki Matheson, a three-time Paralympic gold medallist for Japan, discuss the issue.
Picture: Medal ceremony for the Women's 4x100m Medley Relay. Credit: Getty Images.
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