Tokyo Olympics 2020

Some facts about Tokyo Olympics 2020

The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXII Olympiad and branded as Tokyo 2020, was 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

» The 2020 Summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo from July 24 to August 9. It is the second time Japan will be hosting the Summer Olympics, 56 years since it first received the honor of organizing the Games in 1964.
» Tokyo is the first city to host the Paralympic Games for the second time. Fittingly, the first ever Paralympic Museum will be launched during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
» The official motto for Tokyo 2020 is “United by Emotion,” echoing a universal call for diversity and inclusion.
» Tokyo 2020 will have 33 Olympic Sports and 22 Paralympic Sports events, which will be held in more than 40 venues in and around the city, including two main areas: Heritage Zone and Tokyo Bay Zone.
» Opening and closing ceremonies will take place at the 68,000-seat capacity New National Stadium, which was the main stadium for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games.
» Japan produced 5,000 Olympic medals from 78,985 tons of recycled electronic devices, which included digital cameras, laptops, handheld games and a whopping 6.21 million mobile phones.
» While Japan is not the first to make Olympic medals from recycled materials, it is the first time that citizens of a host country proactively donated their electronic devices as materials for the medals.
» Four new sports have been added to the 2020 Olympics: Karate, Sport Climbing, Skateboarding, and Surfing.
» 339 sporting events will take place during the 2020 Olympic Games.
» Baseball and softball are part of the Olympics again for the first time since 2008.
» Tickets to the Olympics Opening Ceremony cost between $112 and $2,808.
» 4.5 million tickets have been sold to Japanese residents.
» There will be no residents from overseas in the stands during the 2020 Olympics due to COVID-19 concerns.

Tokyo Olympics , 2020 Medal Table