When do the Olympics start?
Postponed for one year due to the health crisis, the Olympic Games (which retain their name "Olympic Games 2020") will take place from July 23 (date of the opening ceremony) to August 8 (date of the closing ceremony) .
From July 21, softball (notably Australia-Japan) and women's football (Japan-Canada) matches will raise the curtain on the team sports events program.
Where do the 2020 Olympics take place?
In Tokyo.
The Japanese capital has already hosted the Summer Olympics in 1964 (but in October, to escape the heat).
These are the 4th Olympic Games organized in Japan after the organization of the Winter Games (Sapporo in 1972 and Nagano 1998).
In Tokyo, two poles concentrate the majority of the events: “Heritage”, located in the heart of the Japanese capital, contains many sites reassigned from the 1964 Olympic Games (the Nippon Budokan for judo and karate and the Kokugikan Arena for boxing ) around the site of the Olympic stadium and “Tokyo Bay”, symbolizing urban development and includes sixteen sites including the Ariake gymnastics center and the aquatic center.
What is the time
difference?
7 hours.
When it is noon in Japan, it is 5 a.m. in Paris.
On which channels to follow the 2021 Olympics?
France Télévisions (France 2, France 3 and France 4) and Eurosport will largely cover the event.
Live, from midnight (French time) until mid-afternoon.
Who are the French qualifiers for the Tokyo Olympics?
The French team is made up of 378 athletes (166 women, 212 men) and represents 31 federations.
Its flag bearers are the judokate Clarisse Agbegnenou and the gymnast Samir Ait-Saïd.
The ambition displayed by Brigitte Henriques, the new president of the French national Olympic and sports committee, is around forty medals.
In 2016, the blue delegation set a record with 42 medals (including 10 gold).
The headliners are Teddy Riner (judo), Sofiane Oumiha (boxing), Florent Manaudou (swimming), Melina Robert-Michon (who will experience her 6th Olympic Games) and Kevin Mayer (athletics), Rudy Gobert (basketball), Elodie Clouvel (modern pentathlon), Earvin Ngapeth (volleyball), Charline Picon (sailing), Yannick Borel (fencing) or André-Pierre Gignac (football).
What are the new sports on the program?
In Tokyo, karate, surfing, rock climbing, skateboarding, and baseball / softball (which disappeared after 2008 and made a comeback) are invited.
33 sports and 339 events are on the program.
What about the spectators?
After the announcement of the ban on foreign spectators in March, the organizers and the Japanese authorities have long hoped to be able to authorize a reduced gauge, before deciding on July 8 not to allow any spectator during the events.
Olympics behind closed doors.
A completely new situation.
