Around 3,500 city volunteers have quit Tokyo Games Xinhua | Updated: 2021-06-07 09:36 Share CLOSE Emiko Hara, Senior Manager Anti-Doping Section, Medical Services Department, Games Operations Bureau speaks to participants during the online field cast volunteer training at the Tokyo 2020 headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, April 10, 2021. [Photo/Agencies]
TOKYO - About 3,500 out of more than 40,000 volunteers have withdrawn from their role as city guides for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Japan s state broadcaster NHK said that according to the withdrawal numbers released by nine out of the 11 hosting prefectural governments that recruited city volunteers, Chiba Prefecture topped the list with 1,083 withdrawals by the end of last month, followed by Miyagi with about 800 and Fukushima with about 630.
May 17, 2021
Shortly after his team reached the final of a 3×3 basketball Olympic test event, Masahiro Komatsu held up an umbrella to shield himself from a light rain as he eagerly explained the appeal of his sport, which will be making its Olympic debut this summer.
While it might sound strange in this era of COVID-19 and social distancing, Komatsu, a national team candidate, said one of the charms of 3×3 basketball was how close you could be to everything.
”I think you got to see it up close today,” Komatsu said during the test event at Aomi Urban Sports Park on an overcast Sunday afternoon in Tokyo’s Koto Ward. “I think that proximity is one of the charms of 3×3. In the five-man game, sometimes you’re far away. In 3×3, you’re really able to see the players because you’re so close.”
Tokyo Olympic organizers to hold talks with FINA this week Apr. 5 06:00 am JST Apr. 5 | 06:30 am JST TOKYO
Tokyo 2020 organizers plan to hold discussions with the International Swimming Federation (FINA) this week, a senior official said, after the federation said it was reviewing whether to hold the Olympics diving qualification event scheduled for this month. We are aware that they intend to cancel. On the other hand, we are still trying to confirm the details and we need to have further discussions with them, Yasuo Mori, deputy executive director for the Tokyo 2020 Games Operations Bureau, said on Sunday. We want to hold talks with them about such details, he told an online briefing after a weekend test event for wheelchair rugby.
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TOKYO Tokyo 2020 organizers plan to hold discussions with the International Swimming Federation (FINA) this week, a senior official said, after the federation said it was reviewing whether to hold the Olympics diving qualification event scheduled for this month.
“We are aware that they intend to cancel. On the other hand, we are still trying to confirm the details and we need to have further discussions with them,” Yasuo Mori, deputy executive director for the Tokyo 2020 Games Operations Bureau, said on Sunday. “We want to hold talks with them about such details,” he told an online briefing after a weekend test event for wheelchair rugby.