The Japanese government continues to ensure that the Olympic Games there will be. Too much has been invested for the games to skip, but that verse Tokyo 2020 (the year has remained unchanged in the name even though it will compete 12 months later) is an obstacle course. How to bring the athletes, how to manage the Olympic village, to involve the public are just some of the question marks that accompany the road from now to July. There are 200 days left.
Japan is doing what it can to keep the pandemic under control.
Until January 31, 2021 the country’s borders are closed. To return, Japanese citizens and foreigners living in Japan must have a negative test carried out 72 hours before departure and must do two weeks of quarantine. Also closed the corridors for athletes who wanted to do a period of preparation in the country.
More than others, the land of the Rising Sun wants to avoid the spread of pandemic from coronavirus to get the green light from the IOC, but also the approval of the World Health Organization on the Games and to avoid that there are nations ready not to send their athletes.
The games are scheduled from 23 July to 8 August 2021, in the same period in which they should have taken place in 2020, already this postponement, according to the British news agency Reuters, costs 2.3 billion euros. The presence of the public has not yet been confirmed, these could be the first Games postponed and the first without spectators. That of athletes will certainly be limited.
National Olympic Committees were asked for one strict organization of arrivals and departures from the Olympic village. The stay must be minimal. Athletes will be able to enter the village five days before the competition and must leave it within two days of the elimination or the end of the competition in which they participate.
The hope of the athletes, starting with the Italian ones, is to be able to be vaccinated in order to prepare and participate in the Games in greater tranquility. However, control measures will be strict. Test to identify the presence of Covid they should be done once every four days and immediately after competitions. The athletes and those who live in the Olympic village could be tracked, probably with an app downloaded on the smartphone, for the entire period of their stay.
Should a period of quarantine 15 days to enter the country would create a problem with other international events that end a few days before the start of the games. Tour de France registered cyclists, for example, may not be at the games and tennis players attending Wimbledon may also have the same problem as NBA players who have made it to the finals.
The Japanese authorities have already announced the departure of the Olympic torch relay for 25 March. However, the population is not convinced that there will be games. Only 27% of those interviewed by the public broadcaster NHK want the Games, the others are divided between cancellation and postponement.
The whole sports world instead focuses on the idea of Olympics as a world renaissance. According to the president of Coni Giovanni Malagò they will be different but beautiful Olympics: «It will be the most important edition ever». The greatest fear for Italy is that the International Olympic Committee will sanction us for not approving the law on the autonomy of sport. The worst hypothesis would make the Azzurri compete without the flag.

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