Empathy, yes, but Tokyo pulling off its Games in a pandemic this summer would create more certainty that Beijing s 2022 Winter Games will go ahead six months later. It is like a test event for our Olympics, Kripps said. You can really confidently go into the Beijing Games if you had the Tokyo Games executed, and hopefully everything goes really well.
Beijing s Winter Olympics open exactly one year from Thursday, Feb. 4, 2022, followed by the Paralympic Winter Games a month later.
Beijing has more time for the world to tame the virus, or to adopt Tokyo s adaptations if it can t. I just hope for a normal Olympic Games, said two-time Olympic moguls champion Mikael Kingsbury of Deux-Montagnes, Que.
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Para bobsleigh left out of Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Paralympics 02/01/21
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Governing Board has finalised the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games sport programme by deciding not to include the sport of Para bobsleigh.
In December 2020, the IPC announced that the five sports of Para alpine skiing, Para ice hockey, Para Nordic skiing, Para snowboard and wheelchair curling were confirmed for 2026 but that a decision on Para bobsleigh would be deferred until early 2021 pending clarification in several areas.
After clarifying these matters, the IPC Board decided not to include Para bobsleigh due to the sport not meeting the minimum criteria for the number of nations and regions regularly participating in the sport. According to data provided by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) to the IPC, the sport was widely and regularly practised in 10 countries and three IPC regions over the 2016/17-2019/20 seasons.
Sunday, 31 January 2021
The choice of Beijing as host city for the 2022 Olympics, made on July 31 2015 at the 128th International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Kuala Lumpur, meant the Chinese capital would become the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Games, having staged the Summer event in 2008.
The award also put in place the last of three consecutive Olympics taking place in East Asia following the allotting of the 2018 Winter Games to Pyeongchang in South Korea and the 2020 Summer Games to Tokyo.
Whether Beijing - which will on Thursday (February 4) mark one year to go until its Games - will indeed be the third East Asian host of an Olympics in this period remains moot.