Afghan athletes ‘extremely emotional’ after top-secret flight

We made it: Zakia Khudadadi (left) and Hossain Rasouli are ferried to the Games Village upon arrival at the Haneda airport in Tokyo. — AP

TOKYO: Afghanistan’s two athletes made an “extremely emotional” arrival at the Athletes Village after a top-secret flight from Paris following their evacuation from Kabul.

Zakia Khudadadi and Hossain Rasouli arrived in Japan ready to compete at the Games, after leaving Taliban-controlled Afghanistan last weekend in a “major global operation”.