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Original title: Tokyo Olympics Postpones Full Moon Diary
The ripple effect of the announcement of the delay of the Tokyo Olympics is expanding.
For the Olympics and the entire sports world, spring 2020 is bound to be extraordinary. The ripple effect of the announcement of the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics is expanding.
However, on the eve of the official announcement of the “full moon” decision, the International Olympic Committee and Japan had a disagreement on the question of “who will bear the additional costs caused by the postponement of the Olympic Games”. The friction between the two sides will show the public the biggest problem after the delay: a sharp increase in financial pressure.
However, I am afraid that not only Japan and the International Olympic Committee are feeling the pressure. In the blink of an eye, the decision has been delayed for an entire month, and the entire international sports organization system has been pushed into the gradually spreading “seismic zone”.
The large amount of additional spending has put pressure on Japan and the International Olympic Committee, even the spectators can foresee. In the event that it is not clear how the extra money will be allocated, even if the impact of this part of the expenditure is neglected, the economic chain of the international sports system caused only by the delay of the Olympic cycle has already affected many organizations sports. .
As the epidemic spread, many competitions, including the European Cup and the American Cup, were forced to be postponed. The postponement of the Tokyo Olympics until 2021 has caused many international individual sports management organizations to rewrite the original schedule to make way for the Tokyo Olympics.
The Fukuoka World Swimming Championships originally planned for 2021 was postponed to 2022, and some projects may fit Tokyo. This shows the pressure caused by the time change. In 2021, the Eugene World Athletics Championships will also avoid the Tokyo Olympics. Postponed for one year, the revised time became July 15-24, 2022.
Following the 2022 World Athletics Championships, the Commonwealth Games and the European Athletics Championships will launch one after the other, from July 27 to August 7 and from August 21 to 21, 2022.
Even after the 2021 World University Games opened two days later, it was still almost consecutive with the Tokyo Olympics. Such a crowded schedule is a test for athletes and organizers.
In addition to schedule pressure, the postponement of the schedule also disrupted the management selection plan of many international sports organizations, including the International Olympic Committee.
The term of the current IOC President, Bach, will expire in 2021. According to the original plan, the new election of the IOC President will take place at the IOC plenary meeting in June 2021, and the Olympic Games are now postponed. The electoral plan may also be affected.
Not only that, the management term of many international sports teams and the National Olympic Committee are also related to the Olympic cycle: when the Olympics are postponed, the personnel selection cycle in these organizational systems may also face adjustments. How to introduce perfect follow-up countermeasures is another headache.
Not only that, these delays mean that the revenue nodes in individual sports organizations and association plans have also decreased accordingly, causing many organizations to have tight capital chains in the present and in the future.
On the night of March 30 local time, the Organizing Committee of the Tokyo Olympic Games held a press conference in Tokyo, announcing that the Japanese government, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Organizing Committee of the Tokyo Olympic Games and The International Olympic Committee jointly decided that the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games will be held in July 2021. Opening on August 23-24. The picture shows the restart of the Olympic countdown card on the streets of Tokyo.
Following the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics, the World Badminton Federation issued a statement: The game plan for the World Badminton Championship originally scheduled for August 2021 will also be changed, and a suitable alternative is being sought.
If the 2021 Badminton World Championship was postponed or even canceled, it was because the 2020 Olympics were suspended for one year. The next time you meet the audience again, you may have to wait until 2022. The two-year blank period is for the World Badminton Federation. There is no doubt that the pen is not a small loss.
Andrew Ryan, CEO of the International Olympic Sports Association of the Summer Olympics, once said in an interview with the media: “Some international sports associations have sufficient funds, but others depend on different business models, and their sources of income are running a competition, but now the competition has been postponed. If these sports don’t have enough reserves of funds, they will face cash flow difficulties in the future. “
Another reason for the rapid tightening of the capital chain is that, in the event that its own events are restarted indefinitely and there is no way to “absorb gold”, the postponement of the Olympic Games has also caused the International Federation of Unique Sports take a year to get the Olympics. Dividend
Among all the Olympic proceeds obtained by the International Olympic Committee, 10% will be used for its own development and management, and the remaining 90% will be allocated in various ways to support the development of the Olympic Games and sports. Therefore, after the last Olympic Games, the International Sports Federation can obtain a sum of money from the International Olympic Committee.
This funding is determined by the rankings and size of sports. More people like athletics, swimming, and gymnastics are expected to receive around $ 40 million; minors like rugby, golf and modern pentathlon also have a prize of $ 7 million.
For large-scale, well-marketed projects, this dividend is nothing, but in the context of the event that the event cannot be restarted, any injection of funds is a gift. As for small items, this dividend is a vital source of income during each Olympic cycle. Now funds can only be raised after the Tokyo Olympics, which is “no later than the summer of 2021.”
Not only that, affected by the postponement of the Olympic Games, even if the dividends are paid by then, it will be “reduced” a lot compared to the original plan.
“At least 15 to 20 international individual sports organizations rely heavily on Olympic Games dividends and other related Olympic revenues,” said Beatty, president of the International Olympic Sports Federation of the Summer Olympics. “I don’t know if they can last until 2021.” “
There is no doubt that in the case of limited funds and even difficulties in normal functioning, the development of these individual organizations will also be dragged down and it will take even longer to restore “vitality”.
Additionally, karate, surfing, skateboarding, rock climbing, and baseball and softball are the five new elements added to the Tokyo Olympics. Without dividends, they originally planned to expand and develop through the Tokyo Olympics. It can only be temporarily stranded.
At another level, the poor are thinking about change. The difficult situation caused by the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics may also make some individual sports federations decide to actively seek change and launch a new competition system.
“In the past, we may know that some areas need to be changed and adapted, but we have always fallen behind due to other tasks that need to be prioritized. Now, the time has come,” said Steve Denton, ITTF CEO. He wrote in an open letter.
As it said, the ITTF has tried to launch a new competition system in this change that affects world sports.
He said the current frequency of the Table Tennis World Championships is held once a year, and the ITTF is considering whether it should hold only the World Team Championship in the future.
As for why he considered canceling individual World Championship events, he explained that in the future plan of the World Table Tennis Company (WTT), there will eventually be 3-4 “Slam” events each year, which will be equal to the individual World Championships. . , Even more than the latter.
From 3 to 4 Grand Slams per year, plus the individual World Championship, not only is the front drawn too long, but also the competition schedule and market operation will also conflict. The cancellation of individual world championships and the promotion of Grand Slam tournaments are intended to cover a wider audience. In this way, the ITTF attempts to take advantage of this opportunity to develop an event system with more player exposure and a longer game timeline, providing a more open platform. “Through these events, we can better define the so-called unique world champion.”
The new system envisaged by the ITTF is extremely beneficial for creating star players and attracting the audience. At the same time, it also means they will have more “windows” and more profit channels. It seems that if it is a quick recovery after the end of the epidemic, or a future commercial development, it is a “beautiful thing”.
In short, a month has passed since the decision was made to postpone the Tokyo Olympics. As the first time in the history of the 100-year-old Olympics, aftershocks continue and the entire world sports system is experiencing resonance right now. (Li He)
