What we are witnessing is a superb production in its own right, arguably more so than it has ever been. Even without a live audience on the ground, the Paralympics have been - and still are - a superb show embracing sporting spirit, drama and athleticism.

The fact that the participants have one form of disability or another now seems totally irrelevant. The Paralympics have come of age.

The turning point of course was London 2012 and subsequently they have become better and better, not just in terms of results and achievement but in presentation.

I do not wish to sound patronising because that is a word which thankfully, has been totally absent from the coverage by the media. Against the odds, just like the Olympics, a spectacular event has been a tremendous success.

Indeed for the last month or so it has been a pure delight just savouring the sport emanating from a deeply troubled Tokyo both in the Games per se and now the seemingly equally popular Paras.

For the first time I can remember the Paralympics are being given the same prominence in news coverage by television and media.

The daily - and nightly - transmissions here in the UK by Channel 4 have been outstanding. For once, as during the actual Olympics, I have been happy to be an insomniac.

It means I can sit back on my sofa with a cuppa in the early hours watching this fascinating show unfold, whether it is wheelchair tennis or basketball (squeals wheels) or a host of other sports equally gripping.

Even the complex divisions of competition in so many sports is no longer quite as confusing. It does not seem to matter if you can’t tell T33 from tea for two.

Inevitably every story is one of triumph over adversity with total acceptance of the word inspirational. What matters most is the intensity of competition.

This is reflected in the media coverage. Here as I say most newspapers are devoting just about as much space and prominence to the Paralympics as they did the Olympics, none more so than the Daily Mail. Their correspondent in Tokyo Ian Herbert is producing superb reportage of the events and personalities are making these Games so compelling for the reader and viewer.

Here is his despatch from Tokyo’s National Stadium on what is headlined "The greatest race ever!" in which Britain's iconic Jonnie Peacock tasted what he called "the first sting of defeat."

He writes: "He (Peacock) could reflect that he had just contributed to the greatest sprint final a Paralympic or Olympic Games has ever seen.

"There has been nothing like this race in which three hundredths of a second divided the first four runners with Peacock and the German Johannes Floors were so hard to split that both were awarded bronze. After three minutes and 17 seconds of deliberation.

"'Has this ever happened?‘ Peacock asked when he emerged drenched in the sweat that had seemed to sting his eyes as he prepared to run. ‘I didn’t think you could share medals in sprints’ . Not in living memory."

I should pay tribute, too, to the excellent reporting by insidethegames own Geoff Berkeley, who has provided a superb daily summary that has both clarity and accuracy as as well as being eminently readable.

Television, too, has presented graphic coverage with commentators and pundits on news channels, like Sky’s Jackie Beltrao, posing pertinent and intelligent questions which are an example to their counterparts who form the excitable platoon of football inquisitors.

Of course it helps the home of coverage that once again Britain is having such a brilliant Games with performances that are second to none. Well second only to the indomitable Chinese to be precise.

Every morning brings a golden dawn, with a shoal of medals cascading into Britain’s overflowing bucket. So many it has been hard to keep count.

One of the features of Channel 4’s Paralympics show has been a late nightly light-hearted look at happenings in Tokyo by the programme The Last Leg.

Presided over by the Australian comedian and presenter Adam Hills, who himself has a prosthetic foot, it features an array of personalities, both able-bodied and disabled who do not take things too seriously in their review of of the day’s events. The result makes entertaining viewing and occasionally makes a compelling point.

For instance, commenting on the terrific scenes after a good British victory in the final of the men’s wheelchair rugby - the rough and tumble event rightly known as "Murderball" -  Hills said : "That was a great moment for wheelchair sport," adding pertinently: "That was a great moment for sport. Full stop."

The programme has begun a campaign to get wheelchair rugby matches in the UK to be screened regularly by Channel 4. There is a case for this, and certain other Paralympic sports to be given similar exposure. Perhaps in Tokyo we are also witnessing yet another new beginning.