Top Story Replay: Olympic Press Corps Faces Tokyo Challenges 01/30/21
AIPS Zoom meeting screen shot (ATR)
(ATR) Media covering the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will soon learn how the coronavirus will impact reporting from Japan later this year.
What’s being called the Tokyo Playbook is set to be released Feb. 4, a detailed guide to the changes coming for press credentialed to the Games. It will be the first definitive guide to the protocols media will need to follow as a result of coronavirus precautions.
“I want to be clear, these will be very different Games, warns Lucia Montanarella, head of Olympic Games Media Operations. She spoke at the open of a virtual meeting organized by AIPS, the International Sports Press Association.
Remember the word: Playbook.
This is the rule book that the IOC and Tokyo organizers are set to roll out next week to explain how 15,400 Olympic and Paralympic athletes and tens of thousands of others will try to safely enter Japan when the Olympics open in just under six months.
Organizers and the International Olympic Committee are finally going public with their planning, hoping to push back against reports the Olympics will be canceled with Tokyo and much of Japan still under a state of emergency with COVID-19 cases rising.
The rollout at Olympic headquarters in Switzerland is planned for Feb. 4, with Tokyo likely to present on Feb. 5.
TOKYO - Remember the word: Playbook.This is the rule book that the IOC and Tokyo organizers are set to roll out next week to explain how 15,400 Olympic and
The playbook aims to explain how athletes and tens of thousands of others will try to safely enter Japan when the Olympics open in just under six months