Narration is used sparingly to introduce athletes in outline, deliberately attuned to the everyman quality central to the amateur events: A Rice University dental school athlete overcomes enormous pressure to win the men’s pole vault competition for the U.S., a car mechanic from Warsaw wins Gold for Poland in the men’s triple jump, a 22-year-old high school gym teacher from Great Britain wins the women’s 800 meter race.
[8] Tokyo organizers insisted they were monitoring the outbreak to minimise its effects on preparations for the Olympics. [47] In November 2012, the Japan Sport Council announced it was taking bids for proposed stadium designs. [42], There are plans to fund the accelerated completion of the Central Circular Route, Tokyo Gaikan Expressway, and Ken-Ō Expressway, and the refurbishment of other major expressways in the area. Meanwhile, with 165 events for men, 156 for women and 18 mixed or open events, Tokyo is also on track to be the most gender equal Olympic Games yet with a predicted 48.2% participation by women.
These names were chosen from a shortlist of four from an original 150 pairs of names; the other three shortlisted names were "Shining Blue" and "Shining Blue Tokyo", "Games Anchor" and "City Anchor", and "Games Force" and "City Force". For the Paralympics, see, "2020 Olympics" and "2021 Olympics" redirect here. [132][133], The official emblems for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics were unveiled on 25 April 2016; designed by Asao Tokolo, who won a nationwide design contest, it takes the form of a ring in an indigo-colored checkerboard pattern. A multitude of Olympic sports were affected, including archery, baseball, cycling, handball, judo, rowing, sailing, volleyball, and water polo. Notify me of follow-up comments? Its fictional characteristics include the ability to teleport. For continuity and marketing purposes, the Games will still be branded as Tokyo 2020 despite the change in scheduling. [38][39], The Tokyo Organizing Committee is headed by former Japanese prime minister Yoshirō Mori.
[129], Per the historical precedent of swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, swimming finals are scheduled to be held in the morning to allow live primetime broadcasts in the Americas. The torch then travelled to Athens, where the Greek leg of the relay culminated in a handover ceremony at the Panathenaic Stadium on 19 March, during which the torch was transferred to the Japanese contingent. The 2020 Summer Olympics (Japanese: 2020年夏季オリンピック, Hepburn: Nisen Nijū-nen Kaki Orinpikku),[b] officially the Games of the XXXII Olympiad[c] and commonly known as [91], After the decision to postpone the Games was made, the torch was placed again in a special lantern on display in the city of Fukushima for a month. Shortly before the postponement was confirmed, the IOC and Tokyo 2020 organizers formed a task force named "Here We Go" with the remit to address any issues arising from postponing the Games, such as sponsorship and accommodation. *Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 were postponed for the first time in their history. [20][21] On 23 March, Canada, Australia and Great Britain said they would withdraw from the Games if they were not postponed by a year.
The hosting of events in these locations has been promoted as a means of furthering recovery in the regions (the rescheduled Games will mark the events' 10th anniversary), with the Games as a whole sometimes being promoted as the "Recovery Olympics" (Fukkō Gorin (復興五輪)). Inspired by traditional temples and with a lower profile, Kuma's design has a budget of ¥149 billion. The Games will feature 339 events in 33 different sports, encompassing a total of 50 disciplines. [33] In an interview with Japanese sports daily Nikkan Sports, Organizing Committee president and former Japanese prime minister Yoshirō Mori asserted that the Games would be "scrapped" if they could not go ahead in 2021. Madrid: 45. The new name was immediately recognized by the IOC, although the Olympic Committee of North Macedonia (NMOC) was not officially adopted until February 2020. [9] Unlike the case of Zika virus during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the SARS-CoV-2 virus can be transmitted directly between humans, posing tougher challenges for the organizers to counteract the infectious disease and host a safe and secure event. A lemon placed as a totem on a starting block. [159][160], The Tokyo Olympics are scheduled to be broadcast in the United States by NBCUniversal networks, as part of a US$4.38 billion agreement that began at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. 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