Games of the XXXII Olympiad | The 32nd Olympic Games – Tokyo 2020!

21 July 2021

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The Summer Olympic Games will open on Friday, July 23 in Tokyo and will run until August 8. They were actually scheduled to take place in July of last year, but now, as is known, due to the Covid-19 pandemic of this endless pandemic, they were postponed for this year like never before in the history of the Olympics. However, the Tokyo Olympics will take place behind closed doors and without spectators under an extraordinary state of emergency. The Japanese capital was selected and decided as the host country of these games during the 125th session of the IOC (International Olympic Committee) held in Buenos Aires, Argentina on September 7, 2013. History shows that these will be the 2nd Olympic Games. organized in Japan after those of 1964, while if we also count the winter ones, they are the 4th in the Asian country after Sapporo 1972 and Nagano 1998. The 2020 Games will see the introduction of new events including 3×3 basketball and freestyle BMX, the return of the madison race to cycling, baseball and softball. Under new IOC policies, which allow the host organizing committee to add new sports to the Olympic programme, these Games will see sports such as karate, sport climbing, surfing and skateboarding make their Olympic debuts. Cancellation and postponement of qualifying races! Concerns about the pandemic began to affect qualifying sporting events in early 2020. Some scheduled to take place in February were moved to alternative venues to address concerns about travel to affected areas, particularly China. For example, the women's basketball qualifier was played in Belgrade, Serbia, instead of Foshan, China. The boxing qualifying tournament was originally scheduled to be held in Wuhan, China, the site of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, from February 3 to 14, but was instead held in Amman, Jordan, in early March. The third round of the women's soccer qualifying tournament was also affected, as group matches previously scheduled to be held in China were moved to Australia. The European Boxing Qualifier was held in London, United Kingdom, before being suspended and resuming in June 2021, moving to Paris, France, for its conclusion. The remaining qualifying events that were due to take place in March to June 2020 began to be postponed to later in the year and mid-2021 as part of a wider suspension of international sporting competitions in response to the pandemic. A host of Olympic sports were affected, including archery, baseball, cycling, handball, judo, rowing, sailing, volleyball and water polo. Calls for cancellation Health experts expressed concern in April 2020 that the Games could be canceled if the pandemic continued. In an interview, former Organizing Committee president and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori claimed that the Games would be "taken out" if they could not be held in 2021. On April 29, Prime Minister Abe stated that: "The Games must be held in a way that shows that the world has won its battle against the coronavirus pandemic". Thomas Bach admitted in an interview on 20 May 2020 that the job of reorganizing the Tokyo Games was "a mammoth task" and also admitted that the event would have to be canceled altogether if could be held in the summer of 2021. However, both Bach and Mori expressed optimism that the Games would go ahead.On January 21, 2021, multiple sources reported that the Japanese government had "privately concluded" that the Games would be cancelled downplayed the claims, stating that the reports were “categorically untrue.” New Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga confirmed on February 19 that the G7 had given unanimous support for the postponed Games to go ahead as planned. "President Biden supports Prime Minister Suga's efforts," the White House said. April 2021, just three months before the start of the Games, there was still the possibility of canceling the Tokyo Olympics with the country having vaccinated less than 1% of its population, with tens of thousands of volunteers expected to participate from athletes who are not required to be quarantined upon arrival in Japan. Prime Minister Suga dismissed these reports in an April 2021 press conference with President Biden, who continues to support Suga's determination to hold the Games. However, public support for the Games in Japan has decreased significantly amid an increase in COVID-19 cases in 2021. Multiple medical expert organizations have expressed opposition to the Games, while an April 2021 opinion poll found 40% of participants supporting the cancellation of the Games against 33% of those who support the development. In May 2021, 83% of respondents supported canceling or postponing the Games. The Tokyo Medical Association is calling for the cancellation, stating that hospitals in Tokyo "have their hands full and have almost no excess capacity" in an open letter to the Prime Minister. At least nine of the 47 elected governors supported canceling the Games. Nearly 37% of Japanese companies surveyed supported canceling the Games and 32% supported postponing. Kenji Utsunomiya, who previously ran for Tokyo Governor, collected more than 351,000 signatures on a petition calling on organizers to "prioritize life" over the Olympics. Japanese writers Jiro Akagawa and Fuminori Nakamura also called for the Games to be postponed or cancelled. On May 26, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, which is a local sponsor of the Games, published an editorial calling on Prime Minister Suga to "calmly and objectively assess the situation and decide to cancel the event this summer." On June 4 it was reported that Japanese sponsors have proposed to organizers that "the Games be postponed for several months", citing a comment from a senior corporate sponsor executive: "It just makes more sense from our perspective to hold the Games when there are more people vaccinated, the weather is colder and perhaps public opposition is lower." In July, it was announced that all events in Tokyo will be held behind closed doors without spectators due to a state of emergency. extraordinary cloud. A poll by the Asahi Shimbun found that 55% of respondents supported canceling the Olympics and 68% felt that organizers would not be able to adequately control COVID-19 at the Games. The decision was also detrimental to local sponsors, who had planned personal appearances to promote their products during the Games; an executive of official sponsor Toyota stated that the company had withdrawn a television advertising campaign it had planned for the Games in Japan, citing that the Olympics "were becoming an event that has not gained public understanding. Although the 2020 Olympic Games will open this Friday, July 23. The Olympic spirit must be kept alive, the Games must be held in an unprecedented situation. In this edition, Albania is also represented by 9 athletes! all the success of the world that is united like this, so that you can reach the day of triumph over this pandemic as soon as possible