Tokyo Olympic Games Adjusting Due To The Pandemic
(CNN) The opening and closing ceremonies of Tokyo’s Olympic Games will be carried out with a “simpler, more restrained approach,” the Organizing Committee announced on Wednesday.
The ceremonies will be designed to “reflect the overall simplification of the Games” with Covid-19 countermeasures in place.
Tokyo’s Organizing Committee made no announcements about how the opening and closing ceremonies format would be different or modified.
“It is appropriate to make ceremonial events and programs simpler and have them in some way reflect and respect the world’s experience of the Covid-19 pandemic,” the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee statement said on Wednesday.
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Breakdancing has officially been added to the 2024 Paris Olympics alongside the other new sports of skateboarding, surfing, and speed climbing in a bid to attract younger audiences.
“We have had a clear priority and this was to introduce sports which are particularly popular among the younger generations,” said President of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach.
Breakdancing made its debut at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games and attracted over one million participants worldwide in 2019.
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