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Representatives of the Tokyo Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the government, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) will discuss the event on the 20th and will accept spectators from abroad. A formal agreement was reached to give up. Seiko Hashimoto, president of the Organizing Committee, revealed in a press conference after the discussion.
According to the statement of the Organizing Committee, the contagion situation of the new coronavirus in the world continues to be serious, including the appearance of mutant strains, and given the situation where cross-border traffic is severely restricted in several countries of the world, this year He explained that it is difficult guarantee free entry to Japan from abroad in the summer. “For all participants and the Japanese, it is a conclusion to run a safe and secure tournament with a certain level of confidence.”
At the press conference, President Hashimoto said: “The Tokyo tournament will be a completely different tournament, but the essence of the outstanding performance of the athletes and the movement of the people will not change. We will also consider specific mechanisms to be able to do so.” The discussion was conducted online with the participation of Tamayo Marukawa, the Olympic Minister, Yuriko Koike, Governor of Tokyo, and Thomas Bach, President of the IOC.
“There was a comment from the IOC and the IPC that they fully supported the decision by the Japanese side,” the Marukawa Olympic minister told reporters. Regarding the national audience, he said: “We will make a decision in April,” he said, noting that he did not know what would happen to the mutant strain of the new crown.
We will also proceed with the refund procedures for tickets sold abroad. Toshiro Mutou, secretary general of the Organizing Committee, said the number of entries was 600,000 at the Tokyo Olympics and 30,000 at the Paralympics. According to the Organizing Committee, the number of tickets sold in Japan for the Tokyo Games is about 4.48 million for the Olympics and 970,000 for the Paralympics, for a total of about 5.45 million.
In the five-part talks on Day 3, it was agreed that the final decision on whether or not to accept sea view guests would be made at the end of March. The hotel and travel industry has asked President Hashimoto to make an early decision, and has indicated that he intends to make a decision by the 25th, when the torch relay begins. From now on, the focus will be on the upper limit of the number of national spectators (mobilization of the place), which will be decided at the end of April.
With the spread of infection with mutant strains of the new crown, the tournament ran for more than four months. In the future, for the Organizing Committee, in addition to measures at the water’s edge when foreign athletes other than spectators and people involved in the tournament enter the country, the comprehensive infection control in the tournament will be a problem. These are also important factors in determining the upper limit of the national audience.
Photographer: Noriko Hayashi / Bloomberg
On the 9th, the Japan Gymnastics Federation and others announced the cancellation of the Tokyo World Cup Tournament, which was scheduled to be held at the Ariake Gymnastics Center on May 4, which also serves as the test tournament of the Tokyo Olympics. The Yomiuri Shimbun reported on the same day that the Organizing Committee decided to hold the scheduled torch relay start ceremony at the “J Village” soccer facility (Naraha Town, Fukushima Prefecture, Hirono Town) without spectators.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato will be in charge of developing a smartphone app to accept foreigners from abroad, including pre-immigration inspections and post-immigration health conditions, in anticipation of the day’s Olympics. 9. Revealed that you had assigned an assistant. Under the Chief Cabinet Secretary, he will play a coordinating role with related ministries and agencies.
Organizing Committee Chairman Hashimoto has made safe and secure competitions a top priority, proposing to “inherit the model of the Tokyo Olympics even after Corona”, which is a review of major sporting events focused on competition.
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