The impact of the extension of Tokyo Olympic Games on another international comprehensive games to be held in China-the 31st World University Summer Games in 2021has already appeared.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 31 (reporter Lu Xingji, Ji Ye, Lu Yuchen) the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games have already set a new date, but the major adjustments in the whole game caused by this have begun to take shape. Although many international individual sports organizations have announced that they are willing to adjust the competition time to “make way” for the Olympic Games, for the international comprehensive sports games, which are especially complicated in preparation, there is little room for moving around, the challenge of suddenly “getting together” has just begun.
After the extension, the Tokyo Olympic Games officially “fixed” from July 23 to August 8, 2021, and the Paralympic Games from August 24 to September 5, this means that it is only five months away from the Beijing Winter Olympics, which opened on February 4, 2022. After the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Paralympic Winter Games, the Summer Youth Olympic Games in Davos will open on October 22, 2022.
Facing the special situation of holding the Summer and Winter Olympic Games and Paralympic Games continuously in about half a year, Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee, said in a conference call with global journalists on March 25, this is a “huge challenge” for the IOC “.
In response, the relevant person in charge of the beijing winter olympic organizing committee said in an interview with xinhua news agency on the 31st that it would assess the impact of the new date of the tokyo olympic games and ensure the success of the beijing winter olympic games.
“We will make joint efforts with members of the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic Committee and the Olympic family to properly deal with all aspects and further improve various preparations. We believe that the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo and Beijing will eventually succeed.” The relevant person in charge said.
The impact of the extension of Tokyo Olympic Games on another international comprehensive games to be held in China-the 31st World University Summer Games in 2021has already appeared. The International University Sports Federation announced on the 30th local time that the competition would be postponed for another two days.
Chengdu World Universiade was originally scheduled to be held in August 8-19. At the end of February, on the basis of fully considering the holiday arrangements of college students in various countries and regions and the schedule of relevant important international events, the organizing committee decided to postpone the holding date by 8 days after consultation and confirmation with the International University Sports Federation, it was opened on August 16, but now it has been postponed to August 18.
“2021 will be the year when international sports competitions gather, and many Olympic athletes are also athletes of the Universiade.” According to the announcement of the International University Sports Federation, the intention of the extension is to allow more buffer time for athletes participating in the Tokyo Olympic Games.
If this change has any benefits, it may be what is mentioned in this announcement: “Now they will have the opportunity to participate in two important competitions in Asia at the same time.”
Due to the Olympic schedule, it can be predicted that more competition arrangements will change accordingly. However, for the ill-fated international sports world in 2020, “certainty” is always good news.
On the 30th, after the new date of the Tokyo Olympic Games was confirmed, FINA issued a statement to welcome it and revealed that it would discuss with relevant parties how to revise the schedule of the 2021fukuoka world swimming championships; watanabe Shoucheng, president of the International Gymnastics Federation, expressed his gratitude for the “quick filing” of the Tokyo Olympic Games after the delay was determined.
The Chinese Olympic Committee issued a statement on 31th, expressing its support for the decision of the International Olympic Committee, believing that the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee can deal with relevant issues and successfully host the Tokyo Olympic Games.
The statement also said that the Chinese Olympic Committee and various individual associations will continue to maintain good communication with the International Olympic Committee, the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee and various international individual sports organizations, analyze and judge and properly deal with the impact of the delay on various work, and actively adjust the preparation work plan and plan according to the arrangement of the Tokyo Olympic Games competition date and subsequent qualification competitions of various projects, while conscientiously doing a good job in epidemic prevention and control, we will do our best to prepare for the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Due to the new Championship epidemic, the global sports world entered the “dark moment” when the events were postponed or canceled one after another, but there were also specific events that began to try to transfer to the Internet.
The eight-strong world go open originally scheduled to be held in Nanjing in March has already been postponed. However, considering the current actual situation, after discussion between China Go Association and Japan Chess Academy, the contest between Chinese chess player Xie Ke 8th segment and Japanese chess player Yi Li Liao 8th segment will be held on the Wild Fox go platform on April 27. At that time, the staff of the China Go Association and the Japanese Chess Academy will accompany the two players in Beijing and Tokyo respectively to ensure the fairness of the competition.
The restart of the domestic marathon race, which is getting louder, received the decision of “not recovering for the time being” on the 31st. The General Office of the State General Administration of Sports issued a notice: “In order to implement the epidemic prevention and control requirements of ‘foreign defense input, internal anti-rebound ‘and reduce the risks brought by the flow and aggregation of personnel to the epidemic prevention and control, effectively protect people’s lives and health. In the future, large-scale activities such as marathons and sports events will not be resumed.”