[144][145] In March 2020, a Japanese businessman has admitted giving gifts, including cameras and watches, to officials at the IOC in order to lobby for their support of Tokyo's bid to host the Olympic games. Composition: Gold: more than 6 grams of gold plating on pure silver. [102][103][104] Wrestling was duly added to the shortlist of applicants for inclusion in the 2020 Games, alongside the seven new sports that were put forward for consideration. [43] The Yurikamome automated transit line is also to be extended from its existing terminal at Toyosu Station to a new terminal at Kachidoki Station, passing the site of the Olympic Village, although the line is not expected to have adequate capacity to serve major events in the Odaiba area on its own. They are now calling on business owners, local authorities and the Japanese public to continue donating used household appliances, to reuse the metal for community purposes, including the creation of medals for local sports events across Japan. [169][170][171] In Australia, they will be aired by the Seven Network. [92][94], The opening ceremony tickets are expected to range from ¥12,000 to ¥300,000, with a maximum price of ¥130,000 for the finals of the athletics track and field events. The Olympic torch for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 incorporates several elements of Japanese culture, and reinforces Tokyo 2020’s Olympic Torch Relay concept: “Hope lights our way”. [19] On 18 March, the IOC repeated its opposition to a delay or cancellation. A specially assigned selection panel had the difficult task of whittling down more than 400 entries before settling on the ideas presented by Junichi Kawanishi, Director of the Japan Sign Design Association and the Osaka Design Society. After that, the lantern was transferred to the Tokyo prefecture, where it will be kept safe until the restart of the relay in 2021. [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. Population < 500 > … The organisers of the Tokyo 2020 Medal Project are hoping that this drive for a sustainable society will not end with the Olympic medals themselves. [16], On 2 March 2020, the Tokyo Organizing Committee (TOCOG) released a statement saying that preparations for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics were "continuing as planned". Miraitowa is named after the Japanese words for "future" and "eternity",[137] and Someity is named after someiyoshino, a type of cherry blossom. [26] Prime Minister Abe stated that IOC president Thomas Bach responded "with 100% agreement" to his proposal to delay the Games. 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Under new IOC policies, which allow the host organizing committee to add new sports to the Olympic programme to augment the permanent core events, these Games will see karate, sport climbing, surfing, and skateboarding make their Olympic debuts, as well as the return of baseball and softball for the first time since 2008.[6]. Overall, these will be the fourth Olympic Games to be held in Japan, which also hosted the Winter Olympics in 1972 (Sapporo) and 1998 (Nagano). [31], According to an estimate conducted by professor emeritus Katsuhiro Miyamoto of Kansai University and reported by the NHK, the cost of delaying the 2020 Olympics by one year will be 640.8 billion yen (US$5.8 billion), taking maintenance expenditures for the unused facilities into account. Bronze: about 450g [153] The organization of events in these regions has faced criticism; Fukushima is considered safe by the World Health Organization and the United Nations, although scientific studies on the safety of the area are currently in great dispute. [158] Telecom company NTT Docomo signed a deal with Finland's Nokia to provide 5G-ready baseband networks in Japan in time for the Games. Sochi 2014. The remainder of the Olympic test events will resume on 11 March 2021 and the last event will take place on 5 May 2021. As part of a goal to control costs and ensure that the Olympics remain "relevant to sports fans of all generations", the IOC assessed the 26 sports contested at the 2012 Olympics,[101] with the remit of dropping one sport and retaining 25 "core" sports to join new entrants golf and rugby sevens at the 2020 Games. By 18 January 2019, a total of 204,680 applications had been received by the Tokyo Organizing Committee. Some of these venues were originally constructed for the 1964 Summer Olympics. [44], In June 2020, TOC CEO Toshirō Mutō stated that the committee was exploring options for streamlining the Games to achieve cost savings. The rights for the 2020 Summer Olympics cover almost all of Europe; a pre-existing deal with a marketer excludes Russia. For the Paralympics, see, "2020 Olympics" and "2021 Olympics" redirect here. [24] That same day, veteran IOC member and former vice president Dick Pound told USA Today that he expected the Games to be postponed. The 2020 Games will see the introduction of new competitions including 3x3 basketball, freestyle BMX, and madison cycling, as well as further mixed events. Twelve venues for 16 sports are situated farther than 8 kilometers (5 miles) from the Olympic Village. Eurosport is scheduled to debut as pay television rightsholder, after Canal+ elected to sell its pay television rights as a cost-saving measure. [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. [3] This marks the first time that the Olympic Games have been postponed to a later date rather than cancelled altogether.[4]. The Olympics are held every four years, and there are two types of games every time. A ban was also imposed for the 2019 Rugby World Cup, which Japan also hosted. [48], In June 2015, the government announced it was planning to reduce the new stadium's permanent capacity to 65,000 in its athletics configuration (although with the option to add up to 15,000 temporary seats for football) as a further cost-saving measure. Aiming to collect eight tonnes of metals to produce the medals for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, collection boxes were deployed at public locations and NTT Docomo retail shops in April 2017. The New York Times felt that the decision was based on the shortage of well-known talent and the absence of women's events in the sport.

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