Although tickets for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics have been sold, spectators will be excluded from the Games in and around Tokyo. Events in areas covered by emergency marathons will allow spectators access, but they will be asked not to cheer on runners in the street, the New York Times wrote.
In February 2012, it was announced that Tokyo’s National Stadium, the main venue of the 1964 Summer Olympics, would be renovated at a cost of 100 billion yen for 2019 Rugby World Cup and 2020 Summer Olympics. Games organisers have decided to put the eight new permanent venues, which were last completed in February, into operation in 2021 and find other accommodation for events. They moved the events planned for the new venues from 23 July to 5 September 2021, the new date for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics was planned for 23 July and the closing ceremony on 9 August. The opening ceremony is about an hour away from the Games and is expected to take place, although 19 cases have been found in the athletes’ village. Another sport, soccer, began as a major event in the U.S.
The Tokyo Games opened the grand opening ceremony at Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium on Friday night. Dance music filled the opening as Olympic athletes from 205 participating countries marched to the stadium for the hour-long parade of nations. The opening ceremony concluded the 2020 Games, which began a year earlier than planned.
The 68,000 spectators cheered the athletes and several thousand foreign dignitaries, diplomats, Olympic sponsors and international Olympic Committee members who were present at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics. Those who tuned in also saw dozens of dancers, the newly built Olympic Village and Olympic rings raised from trees brought to the Japanese capital of athletes when Tokyo hosted the 1964 Summer Games.
Tokyo became the first Asian city to host the Olympics in 1964 and it was a triumph that catapulted Japan into modernity. Now the Japanese capital is gearing up for another Olympic Games in the summer of 2021, a year before the Tokyo 2020 Games begin.
The decision to postpone the Tokyo 2020 Olympics due to security concerns in COVID-19 until the summer of 2021 was taken by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and IOC President Thomas Bach. The IOC has now confirmed that the Games will be called Tokyo 2020 for the new 2021 event date.
Much remains up in the air as to who will compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics, as the event has been postponed to an unspecified date and many athletes are making plans for the future. Many Olympic trials will not take place until the end of 2020 – in athletics and swimming, for example, the tests for all Olympians will be decided at the end of May, not in June 2020, the month before the Olympics. It is unclear which sports will advance their tests, when they will take place, and the timing of the Olympics remains unknown.
In February 2019, it was announced that 56 Test events will be branded under the banner of Ready, Steady and Tokyo. Two of them took place at the end of 2018, with the main test events starting in June 2019 and finishing in May 2020, before the start of the 2020 Olympic Games. Some of the test events will incorporate existing championships created as Olympic testing events for the 2020 Summer Games.
NBC Sports Digital is the leading destination for sporting events and ceremonies for the Olympics, while USA Network, CNBC, NBCSN, Olympic Channel, Golf Channel and Telemundo will cover the games all four events. For a full list of networks broadcasting sports events, visit NBC Sports Digital. Find information in our full guide with schedules, event details, dates, Tokyo Stadium, other venues and more.
The opening ceremony will broadcast live on NBC and streamed live on NBC Sports app and NBC Olympics website. In addition, NBC and its streaming sister station Peacock will broadcast the Games, and the 2020 Summer Olympics in the United States will be streamed on other services. The Sling TV Blue package also includes coverage of the games including live coverage of the opening ceremony on the NBC Sports Network and NBC Sports Network Plus in selected markets.
Naomi Osaka climbs the stairs to light the Olympic Cavalier during the opening ceremony at Tokyo Olympic Stadium for the 2020 Summer Olympics on Friday 23 July 2021 in Tokyo, Japan.
TOKYO – Belatedly and under siege, the 2020 Summer Olympics opened Friday night with fireworks, bespoke television choreography unfolding over an empty stadium, and a colorful but subdued ceremony that struck a distinctive tone in keeping with the unique pandemic games. The opening of the Olympics took place without the usual mass energy as the Games took place amid simmering anger and disbelief, with much of Japan hoping that organizers “enthusiasm for the sports that will follow could offset widespread opposition.
