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TOCOG. v. t. e. A number of concerns and controversies arose leading up to the 2020 Summer Olympics, which took place in Tokyo, Japan. The games were postponed until July 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The IOC stated that their Japanese partners and the former prime minister Shinzo Abe "made it very clear" in 2020, "that Japan could ...
2020 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan Main article: Concerns and controversies at the 2020 Summer Olympics In the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic , the Games were postponed for the first time in the 124-year history of the modern Olympics. [119]
TOCOG. v. t. e. On 1 August 2021, it was reported that Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya was in the process of being repatriated to Belarus from Tokyo, Japan, against her will, and had been removed from competing at the 2020 Summer Olympics, for posting a video on social media that was critical of her coaches.
TOCOG. v. t. e. The 2020 Summer Olympics, [3] officially the Games of the XXXII Olympiad [4] and officially branded as Tokyo 2020, [5] were an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July 2021.
On January 31, 2020, World Athletics, the governing body for professional track and field, [3] issued new guidelines concerning shoes to be used in the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympics. [4] These updates came to answer the complaints many people have had concerning the technology in the Nike Vaporfly running shoes.
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Controversies Doping in weightlifting was highlighted during the Games due to historic problems in the sport. [5] [6] Due to corruption, [7] failed reforms of the International Weightlifting Federation , [8] and doping problems, the IOC is threatening to drop weightlifting entirely from the Olympics unless substantial reforms are made to the sport.
IOC. JOC. TOCOG. v. t. e. A number of sportspeople eligible for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo stated that they would not attend because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. In the case of tennis, media speculated that some absentees were unenthusiastic about competing in any case and used COVID-19 as a convenient excuse.