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TOKYO, Feb 3, (AP): It will be an Olympics like no other, the world’s largest mega-sports event being staged in the middle of a pandemic. Tokyo organizers and the IOC on Wednesday began explaining in public just how they hope to do it, rolling out “Playbooks” to detail the ways that 15,400 athletes will enter Japan – and exit Japan – with the Olympics opening on July 23 and the Paralympics a month later.
“There are indeed a lot of questions in the public domain about how the games will take place this summer. And today is a preliminary review of how things will be done,” Olympic Games executive director Christophe Dubi said in a video news conference with Tokyo officials.
Tokyo Olympics 2021: IOC roll out strict guidelines for upcoming Games
3 Feb, 2021 06:45 PM
4 minutes to read
NZ Herald
No cheering, no bars and less intimacy are just a few of the ground rules being set out for the upcoming Olympic Games.
Tokyo organisers and the IOC have begun explaining just how they hope to host the Tokyo Games amid the Covid-19 pandemic, rolling out a guide as the first of their so-called Playbooks to educate all visitors.
The details pointed clearly to the limits that athletes, games volunteers, media and fans if any are allowed in the venues will also face in similar documents to be published and updated in the months ahead.
The Playbook introduced on Wednesday is aimed at international sports federations and technical officials. Guides for athletes, broadcasters and the media will come in the next few days. They are all similar, and these are all the “first versions. Much of the information is still vague with more details coming in updates in April and June.
The IOC held a similar session earlier in the week with Olympic athletes and their representatives to explain the stringent guidelines in their rule books.
On that video conference, obtained by The Associated Press, IOC President Thomas Bach spelled out the large unknown.
“At this moment in time, no scientist can predict the health situation in 206 national Olympic committees at the time of the Olympics,” Bach told the athletes, adding the IOC was learning day to day and asked for the athletes patience.
TOKYO
It will be an Olympics like no other, the world’s largest mega-sports event being staged in the middle of a pandemic.
Tokyo organizers and the IOC on Wednesday began explaining in public just how they hope to do it, rolling out “Playbooks” to detail the ways that 15,400 athletes will enter Japan and exit Japan with the Olympics opening on July 23 and the Paralympics a month later.
“There are indeed a lot of questions in the public domain about how the games will take place this summer. And today is a preliminary review of how things will be done,” Olympic Games executive director Christophe Dubi said in a video news conference with Tokyo officials.