Karasawa, Wada win silver, bronze in men's T11 5,000 meters

Sugoi sugoi ganbatte yo

I have very bad eyes. Which ones are the blind in the picture? I use giant text and zoom in to read.

Great good job folks thats amazing

The guides are the real winners here as all must be faster than the blind they are leading. It would be better if the "guide" gave them instructions through an earpiece from the track side. "left a bit... left a bit more..straight.." etc

@Mr Kipling - the guides are actually substituted out during the race so they only have to run at the same speed as the competitors for a portion of the distance. They're still pretty impressive, though.

@ShinkansenCaboose - I share your visual impairment and know just how you feel! In the picture, the people wearing big orange shirts are the guides, and the ones between them in ordinary running gear are the competitors.

It's interesting... But it seems the blind runners are dependent on how fast or slow their sighted guides are?

letsberealisticToday  02:05 pm JST

Why are the Olympics staff (or 'Guides') running in this race?!

really?

The guides should get medals too because they're doing most of the legwork (pun intended).

Nice to see the gold medal winner get a mention too.

Those are sub 5-minute miles. Extremely fast.

This is all and good, but why isn't the medal count posted like the Olympics? This makes the Paralympics seem like 2nd class.

Why are the Olympics staff (or 'Guides') running in this race?!

Well....Look at the atletes. They are visually impaired.

Vision challenged Paralympian runners are faster than their able-bodied sighted guides. Congratulations to medal winners Jacques, Karasawa, and Shinya.

@Chico3, the paralympics are considered second class. That's why nobody really cares or watches them unfortunately. It's like children in grade school all getting a trophy for participation.