Tokyo 2020 Announces New Creative Team Structure for Opening and Closing Ceremonies 12/23/20
The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) announced today details of the new creative team which will design and deliver the programme for next year’s Opening and Closing Ceremonies. Following the postponement of the Games in the wake of the spread of COVID-19 and the accompanying disruptions, we are working to deliver Opening and Closing Ceremonies that will be in tune with the situation next summer. The ceremonies will still be a great celebration to be enjoyed by the athletes and watching world but will likely take a simpler and more restrained approach designed to reflect the overall simplification of the Games and the potential need to still consider COVID-19 countermeasures. We have therefore decided to create a new team organisation that will allow us to prepare for these ceremonies more quickly and efficiently in the limited time available.
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The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) announced on Friday (11 December) the date of the Para athletics Test Event.
Ready Steady Tokyo - Para athletics will take place on 11 May at the Olympic Stadium in the Japanese capital. The competition will be held two days after the Olympic Athletics Test Event in the same venue.
Para athletics is one of the eight sports included in the programme of the first Paralympic Games in Rome, Italy in 1960, and has been part of the Games ever since.
A total of 1,100 athletes are set to compete in 167 Para athletics medal events at Tokyo 2020.