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A facelift on unprecedented Olympic Games

2021-07-19T16:45:59.690Z


Five new sports are invited to the Tokyo Olympics, which opens on Friday. Tokyo holds its breath. Three days before the opening ceremony (the football and softball tournaments will launch the program on Wednesday), cases of Covid-19 recorded in the Olympic village leave the authorities and the organizers on alert, well hung on the seatbelt . Some people discover the Olympics in a funny atmosphere. Air change. Like the Winter Olympics with slopestyle or Big Air during th


Tokyo holds its breath.

Three days before the opening ceremony (the football and softball tournaments will launch the program on Wednesday), cases of Covid-19 recorded in the Olympic village leave the authorities and the organizers on alert, well hung on the seatbelt .

Some people discover the Olympics in a funny atmosphere.

Air change.

Like the Winter Olympics with slopestyle or Big Air during the last editions in Sochi, then Pyeongchang, the Summer Olympics focus on changing the program to meet the youth.

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Adapt without distorting or destabilizing.

Combine the charm of tradition and the (creative) force of modernity.

A desire that existed at the beginning of the 20th century with demonstration sports.

A desire reinforced in 2014 when the IOC put an end to the rule of 28 competitive sports.

They will be 33 in Tokyo.

For climbing, surfing, skateboarding and karate (three French competitors, Alexandra Feracci,

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Source: lefigaro

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