One of them is unlikely to please young athletes. Talking about summer Youth Olympic games (for athletes aged 15 to 18 years), which was to be held in Senegal, Dakar in 2022. After long negotiations, the IOC President Thomas Bach with the Senegalese side was reached the decision to postpone the Games in 2026. The solution is difficult, because Africa was going for the first time to host the sports forum of such level. Now a historical event will have to wait another four years. However, the International Olympic Committee was not. Pandemic coronavirus triggered deep tectonic shifts in the global sports calendar, which, in particular, was a year postponed the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. “The main reason that we it was almost impossible to arrange five Games in three years”, – said Bach at a press conference.
Recall that in 2021 the IOC to hold the summer Games in Tokyo, the 2022 winter in Beijing, 2024-summer in Paris and winter youth in the Korean Gangwon-do.
the Good news is that the Olympics in the Japanese capital at the moment, neither re-move, nor even to cancel, no one is going. “We fully believe that in July next year we will celebrate the start of the Olympics in Tokyo,” said Thomas Bach. In addition, the IOC President noted that variants of the Games solely with the audience: “the Olympic games without spectators, of course, is not what we want. There are several scenarios of the organization of security of the Olympics in Japan.”
the IOC has already adopted the revised rules of qualification for all sports at the Games in Tokyo. All qualifying competitions must be completed by June 29, 2021, and lists counts athletes need to prepare for July 5. If in a particular sport there is an age limit, those athletes who could participate in the Games in 2020, the year would be admitted to the Games in 2021-m. For example, in the Olympic football tournament, the age limit is usually 23 years, and in Japan will be able to play and those who are over 24.
the Desire of the IOC to hold the Games in Tokyo in 2021 can be connected with the fact that the cancellation of the summer Olympics in Japan may result in the cancellation of the winter Games in Beijing. In any case, so says the IOC member and former head of the world anti-doping Agency Richard pound. “Taking into account the political side of things, if in July and August of the following year in Tokyo there will be problems with the coronavirus, it is difficult to imagine that it will not cause negative effects for Games after 5 months”, – quotes Reuters the pound.
However, this is out of the question. And the theme of the Olympics in 2022 were raised in the hockey section. We will remind, recently in the National hockey League has been extended to the collective ACCAlenia, one of the points which allows for the participation of NHL players in the Games in 2022, and 2026 in Milan.
“the New agreement is a great step for the participation of NHL players not only in the Olympic games in Beijing, but also in Milan. We always want to see at the Games the best, so our door is always open for NHL players. Glad that many players have expressed a desire to participate in the Olympic games, we supported them,” assured Thomas Bach.
