Tokyo 2020

— 17 March 2021

Decisive meeting on Monday March 22

The wait will not be very long. According to the NHK, a summit meeting is to be held Monday, March 22nd, by videoconference, between the Tokyo Games Organising Committee,... Lire la suite »

— 16 March 2021

At the Tokyo Games, athletes could be tested every day

The days go by without weariness, but the news from Japan is not very exciting. With 129 days before the opening ceremony, this Tuesday, March 16th, the scene of... Lire la suite »

— 12 March 2021

China offers help to the IOC in the face of COVID-19

Bad timing? As the pressure builds on the IOC to withdraw the organisation of the Winter Games in Beijing in 2022, Thomas Bach on Thursday (March 11th) expressed a... Lire la suite »

— 11 March 2021

No exception for the families of the athletes

The official version remains the same: the decision to allow foreign spectators to attend the Tokyo Games has yet to be made, and will not be until at least... Lire la suite »

— 11 March 2021

Decisive meeting next week

Several sources confirm this: the question of the presence of foreign spectators at the Tokyo Games should be definitively settled next week. Japanese media report that a meeting is... Lire la suite »

— 10 March 2021

More tests for athletes

Seiko Hashimoto (pictured above), the new chair of the Tokyo Games organising committee, told Japanese media on Tuesday March 9th: the frequency of COVID-19 testing on athletes during the... Lire la suite »

— 10 March 2021

A departure of the flame behind closed doors

The trend is confirmed. The Japanese daily Yomiuri announces, on the basis of anonymous sources but familiar with the matter, that the starting ceremony of the Olympic torch relay... Lire la suite »

— 10 March 2021

The Tokyo Games without foreign spectators

A sad prospect. A week after the revelations of the daily Mainichi, another Japanese media, Kyodo News, in turn revealed that the government of Yoshihide Suga had already taken... Lire la suite »

— 9 March 2021

Two thousand visitors a day before the Games

The information is not yet official, but according to the Nikkei, Japan plans to allow 2 000 visitors from overseas per day, as soon as government authorities pronounce the... Lire la suite »

— 9 March 2021

Decision at the end of March for the foreign public

The Japanese press took the lead last week, assuring that the authorities had already taken the decision not to allow foreign spectators to the Tokyo Games. But the IOC... Lire la suite »