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OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES

24 March 2020

They were joined by Mori Yoshiro, the President of the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee; the Olympic Minister, Hashimoto Seiko; the Governor of Tokyo, Koike Yuriko; the Chair of the IOC Coordination Commission, John Coates; IOC Director General Christophe De Kepper; and the IOC Olympic Games Executive Director, Christophe Dubi. President Bach and Prime Minister Abe expressed their shared concern about the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, and what it is doing to people’s lives and the significant...

Olympic softball schedule announced for the Games

TOKYO 2020

12 March 2020

The sport of softball will kick off the Olympics with a special opener between the Australian Women's National Softball Team and home team Japan in Fukushima. The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) and the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) today revealed the official Olympic softball game schedule, which will open on 22 July at Fukushima Azuma Baseball Stadium and close with the gold medal game on 28...

FINA Taskforce, first meeting to consider the impact of the current situation

TOKYO 2020

12 March 2020

Following the declaration of World Health Organisation that the current COVID-19 outbreak has now reached a worldwide pandemic status, the recently-created FINA Taskforce held its first meeting (by videoconference) to consider the impacts of the current situation with regard to the health of our athletes by assessing the risks of hosting forthcoming FINA competitions. A number of significant decisions were made to postpone or cancel events. FINA's overriding concern at this challe...

Lighting ceremony of the Olympic Flame: tomorrow is the big day in Greece

TOKYO 2020

11 March 2020

Tomorrow the Olympic flame will be lit near the Temple of Hera at the sacred site of Ancient Olympia in Greece.This marks the start of the Olympic Flame’s journey to Tokyo and the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games on 24 July 2020.With the slogan “Hope Lights Our Way”, the Olympic Torch Relay will undoubtedly have a special significance for all of us this year.The ceremony itself is largely symbolic and is used to connect the Games of Ancient Greece to the modern Olympics. As the name suggest...

TOKYO 2020

04 December 2019

The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic GamesThe Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games(Tokyo 2020) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that Sapporo Odori Parkin Hokkaido was approved by the International Olympic Committee as the venue for marathon and racewalk events at an IOC Executive Board meeting held today in Lausanne, Switzerland. This followed confirmation from World Athletics.Sapporo Odori Park has been used in the p...

TOKYO 2020

16 October 2019

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that it is planning to move the Olympic marathon and race walking events to Sapporo, the host city of the Olympic Winter Games 1972. The move to Hokkaido, the northern-most prefecture of Japan, will mean significantly lower temperatures for the athletes during the Olympic Games. In Sapporo, temperatures during the Games period are as much as five to six degrees centigrade cooler during the day than in Tokyo, which is more than 800 kilomet...

Niccolò Campriani coaches refugees in Tokyo 2020 qualifying challenge

DOCUMENTED BY OLYMPIC CHANNEL

25 July 2019

Coach a group of refugee athletes who just started a new sport, and help them qualify for Tokyo. In just one year. This is the ambitious project taken up by the three-time sport shooting Niccolò Campriani. Training began at the end of March 2019, with only to go. The journey of the three selected refugees is being original series Taking Refuge: Target Tokyo 2020.This weekend they will take part in their first test at the Italian shooting championships in Bologna. Campriani ended his ca...

Tokyo 2020's Medals Unveiled. Bach, Japan will make history

ONE YEAR TO GO!

24 July 2019

With exactly one year to go before the start of the olympic games tokyo 2020, the organising committee (tocog) has at last unveiled the design of the medals that will be awarded at the games next summer. The winning designs were selected after a nationwide competition open to both professional designers and design students. 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...

The Kihinkan: the Casa Italia for the Games

TOKYO 2020

16 July 2019

The Kihinkan – Takanawa Manor House”: this is the Casa Italia headquarters at the next 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The CONI Council made the decision today at the end of a long selection process of over 60 locations carried out during the last two years. The structure is characterized by a Liberty-style architecture from the start of the last century and is located in the Minato district about 10 kilometres form the Olympic Village and the Main Press Center. Financed totally by the CONI pa...

IOC approves qualification for athletes in boxing for Tokyo 2020

EXECUTIVE BOARD

19 June 2019

Following the recommendations made on 22 May 2019 by the IOC EB to keep the boxing tournament on the Tokyo 2020 sports programme while suspending the recognition of the International Boxing Federation (AIBA), the IOC EB added further proposals to ensure the delivery of the qualification events and the boxing tournament at Tokyo 2020. They will immediately come into force if the IOC Session approves the IOC EB recommendations of 22 May 2019.The EB decision includes two main topics:The Tokyo 2020...

Giorgio Armani dresses the Italian Team at Olympic and Paralympic Games

TOKYO 2020

14 June 2019

Giorgio Armani will be the official outfitter of the Italian team at the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2020. The designer's collaboration with CONI (the Italian National Olympic Committee) and CIP (Italian Paralympic Committee), which expresses his strong ties with the world of sport, will be announced today during the presentation of the Emporio Armani men's Spring/Summer 2020 Collection. Twenty Olympic athletes and nine Paralympians from the different disciplines taking part in th...

Tokyo 2020 Unveils Details of Olympic Competition Schedule

OLYMPIC GAMES

16 April 2019

The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) today announced the event line-up for each session of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. This important information gives some tips for those considering purchasing Olympic tickets. The action-packed programme will feature a record 33 sports and 339 events and will run from 24 July until 9 August 2020.Preliminary events will kick off with softball and women’s football on 22 July 2020, two days before the Opening Ceremony....

Unveils Olympic Games Sport Pictograms. Designs embody the artistry of athletes in action

TOKYO 2020

12 March 2019

The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) today unveiled the official sport pictograms of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. In line with the Tokyo 2020 brand promise of “Innovation from Harmony”, the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 sport pictograms are designed to subtly communicate the characteristics and athleticism of each sport, as well as artistically highlights the dynamism of athletes. They will play a key role in enhancing the experience of athletes and spectat...

The volunteer recruitment campaign for the Olympic and Paralympic Games begins

TOKYO 2020

03 October 2018

The Organizing Committee of the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 have commenced the volunteer recruitment campaign.As many as 80 thousand people will be involved in the management of the Olympic Games, which will be held between 24 July and 9 August 2020, while another 30 thousand will be enrolled by the municipality of the Japanese capital to support tourists who attend the competitions.As regards the Games, the Organizing Committee has announced a call for tenders to search for y...