One year ago, Tal he was partying on being 100 days away from the start of the Olympics, but everything was arrested due to covid-19. Today, the party is repeated after a pandemic that forced the postponement of the summer competition, which will take place this year, although with uncertainty at its peak.
While this side of the world is still Tuesday, April 13, in Japan is already lived on Wednesday 14 and therefore the countdown to the Olympics that starts at number 100. The celebration is with greater caution, as after the cancellation of the fair last year, the ravages of the coronavirus continue to lurk in the edition of Tokyo 2020, which decided to keep that name due of trademark registration for the production of merchandise and other commercial contracts.
“It simply came to our notice then. The Games will begin on July 23 and I think that is a great merit for what President Bach, I, and others have described as the best prepared Games in history“, Said John Coates, chairman of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordinating Committee.
And it is that the uncertainty has been the flag of these Olympic Games, since it continues doubting the accomplishment with the increased infections which has been registered in the country.
“I have no hesitation in saying that the Games will be held and they will be as safe as possible. All measures have been implemented to combat Covid-19 to ensure the safety of the public, athletes and everyone else. “
Many things will be different at these Olympics, as for the first time, the outside public will not be able to support their athletes or wave their flags in the stands. Only the Japanese will have the privilege of watching each chapter to be written in each of the 42 sports.
North Korea case
the country will be absent from the games “To protect” their “athletes from the global health crisis due to malicious viral infection,” it was announced on a government-run website.
North Korea has participated in all the Olympic Games since 1972, except in 1984 in Los Angeles, when it joined the Soviet boycott, and in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. North Korean athletes have won 16 gold medals.
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