Bach and IOC: No Olympic city ever as ready as Tokyo | News24

NOlympics Guide to Tokyo 2020

TOKYO 2020: A Disaster a Decade in the Making The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are over. They have exposed to the entire world the depths to which the IOC will play with our lives in order to satisfy TV and sponsorship contracts, and the media has largely echoed the fact that much of the world has now sour

IOC lines up French Alps, Salt Lake City to host 2030, 2034 Winter Olympics | CBC Sports

Salt Lake City being preferred as a shoo-in to host the 2034 Winter Olympics was expected. The surprise was the IOC favouring the French Alps bid for the 2030 edition on Wednesday.

Concerns and controversies at the 2020 Summer Olympics

A number of concerns and controversies arose leading up to the 2020 Summer Olympics, which took place in Tokyo, Japan. The games were postponed until July 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The IOC stated that their Japanese partners and the former prime minister Shinzo Abe "made it very clear" in 2020, "that Japan could not manage a postponement beyond next summer [2021] at the latest".[1] Just weeks before the opening of the Tokyo Olympics, honorary patron Emperor Naruhito was said to be "extremely worried about the current status of coronavirus infections",[2] and was "concerned that while there [were] voices of anxiety among the public, the holding (of the events) may lead to the expansion of infections".[3]

2020 Summer Olympics

The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXII Olympiad and officially branded as Tokyo 2020, were an international multi-sport event held from July 23 to August 8, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on July 21, 2021. Originally scheduled to take place from July 24 to August 9, 2020, the Tokyo Games were postponed until 2021 on March 24, 2020 as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the only such postponement in the history of the Olympic Games. However, the Tokyo 2020 branding was retained for marketing purposes.

Asian Games organizers fear big disruptions from typhoon | The Asahi Shimbun Asia & Japan Watch

NAGOYA—Organizers of the Asian Games, the largest sports event on the continent, are preparing to evacuate athletes and rearrange competition schedules if Typhoon No. 25 threatens to hit the Nagoya area.

Tokyo closes books on costly, pandemic-delayed Olympics

TOKYO (AP) -- Organizers of last year's COVID-delayed Tokyo Olympics were expected to place the final cost of the Games at 1.42 trillion yen, about tw

Accommodation, transportation problems mar 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games - The Korea Times

NAGOYA, Japan — With more than 15,000 athletes and officials bringing a 16-day run to an end on Sunday, the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games came unde...

'Chaotic' Asian Games threaten Japan hopes of hosting Olympics again

The Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya saw a catalogue of mishaps, from athletes taken to the wrong venues to the North Korean national anthem played for the South Korean hockey team.

Indian medalist calls Japan-hosted Asian Games a 'sad' event for athletes

Official from Aichi-Nagoya organizing committee apologizes for logistical lapses

Japan emperor declares Asian Games open following turbulent build-up

The 20th Asian Games were declared open by Japan's emperor on Saturday following a troubled build-up to the multi-sport spectacular that has more athletes than the Olympics.

Tokyo's Diversity Olympics Dogged by Controversy

Since Tokyo 2020 can't really brag about tackling environmental issues, sustainability, cost cutting, or transparency, by default diversity and inclusiveness have become the branding agenda. This could be a positive legacy, but can the Olympics serve as a catalyst for Japan to reinvent itself? Probably not, due to the patriarchal elite's ethnonationalism and aversion to diversity and inclusion.

Tokyo's Diversity Olympics Dogged by Controversy

Since Tokyo 2020 can't really brag about tackling environmental issues, sustainability, cost cutting, or transparency, by default diversity and inclusiveness have become the branding agenda. This could be a positive legacy, but can the Olympics serve as a catalyst for Japan to reinvent itself? Probably not, due to the patriarchal elite's ethnonationalism and aversion to diversity and inclusion.

Tokyo Games offer 'playbooks' to assure athletes, sway public | CBC Sports

Tokyo organizers and the IOC on Wednesday began explaining in public just how they hope to do it, rolling out "playbooks" to detail the ways that 15,400 athletes will enter Japan — and exit Japan — with the Olympics opening on July 23 and the Paralympics a month later.

By the numbers: A look at the Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan

The Asian Games are often identified as the second most important multisports event after the Summer Olympic Games. They date from the first edition in 1951 in New Delhi, India, and were last held in...

'Failing, chaotic': Teams slam Asian Games organisers - Sports - The Jakarta Post

The biggest issue at the Aichi-Nagoya Games has been a shortage of rooms for the 17,000 participants, while some athletes have complained of cramped accommodation.