"We are confident that athletes will understand their responsibility to comply with the rules."said Coates, adding that the IOC and organizers "they want to make sure the Olympic Village is the safest place in Tokyo".<\/p>\n
The rules that the hosts plan to apply include limiting the movement of athletes to the Olympic Village and the training and competition facilities, the mandatory use of a mask when they are not exercising or the monitoring of their movements through smartphone applications .<\/p>\n
Coates also noted that national committees are considering taking other steps to "adapt" to the unprecedented conditions under which the Games will be held, including shortening your stay in Japan to just 4-5 days before the competitions.<\/p>\n
Another key tool to ensure the health safety of athletes will be frequent tests for the virus, for which there is currently the capacity to carry out 4,000 or 5,000 a day, a number that is to be expanded by 2021, Coates explained.<\/p>\n
The Australian stressed the IOC’s willingness to ensure that "a reasonable number of viewers" during Olympic competitions in Tokyo, although "without compromising safety".<\/p>\n
In this sense, he stressed "the many lessons to learn" of the different competitions held in various countries in the presence of the public, including several games of the professional baseball league of Japan with more than 20,000 spectators.<\/p>\n
The president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, arrived in Japan this Sunday to discuss the preparations for the Tokyo Olympics with the Government and the organizers of the event during a series of meetings that will last until Wednesday.<\/p>\n
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The visit to Japan of the head of the CIO is the first since this body and the Japanese Executive decided last March to postpone the event until the summer of 2021 due to the new coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n
Bach plans to hold a meeting this Monday with the Prime Minister, Yoshihide Suga, and participate that same day in a meeting with the organizing committee of the Tokyo Games, in which the governor of the Japanese capital, Yuriko Koike, will participate.<\/p>\n
The CIO president also plans to visit the new Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on Tuesday and appear before the media on Wednesday at the end of his meetings with those responsible for the organization.<\/p>\n
It is expected that during these meetings the latest measures proposed by the hosts will be analyzed to control possible contagions between athletes, Games personnel and the public during the Olympic competition.<\/p>\n
Bach and the Japanese organizers also plan to address the latest news on progress towards the development of a vaccine against covid-19 and its possible positive impact on the Games, according to local media.<\/p>\n
Both the CIO president and the hosts of the next Games have insisted in recent months on their willingness to organize the Games in 2021 whatever the pandemic situation and whether the vaccine is available or not.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) seeks that, if available, the participants and attendees of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are vaccinated against Covid-19, according to its president, Thomas Bach, today.<\/p>\n
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Bach addressed the issue on the first day of a visit to Tokyo, which will close this Wednesday, in order to meet with local authorities and review the plans for the Olympic competitions that are scheduled to begin on July 23.<\/p>\n
If the Covid-19 vaccine is available, the IOC will make efforts to vaccinate participants and visitors before arriving in Japan, Bach told reporters after meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.<\/p>\n
The JJ.OO. Tokyo 2020 were postponed for a year as the coronavirus pandemic began to spread, but the spread of covid-19 is maintained and even in Japan a rebound in infected has been noted in recent days.<\/p>\n
To date, some 118,000 people have been infected in Japan by the new coronavirus, with 1,885 deaths, since the first case, which was reported on January 16, according to data from the Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n
Both Suga and Bach confirmed their intention to keep the revised dates for the Olympic competitions unchanged, but also work to make them as safe as possible for athletes and spectators.<\/p>\n
The Japanese government and the IOC are working on the premise that the Olympic events will be held with spectators in the stands, regardless of whether limits are set on the number of visitors to the stadiums.<\/p>\n
The Spanish Paralympic Committee is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its creation these days. It began its journey in 1995 and since then it has always had the Honorary Presidency of the Infanta Do\u00f1a Elena.<\/p>\n
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Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Arroyo was its first president (1995-2004) and since 2004 he has headed the Miguel Carballeda entity. One of the most important milestones in its history was the creation of the ADOP Plan in 2005.<\/p>\n
Throughout the history of the Paralympic Games, the Spanish Team has achieved a total of 694 medals, 651 of which were in the Summer Games (208 golds, 221 silver and 222 bronzes) and the remaining 43 in the Winter Games. (15 gold, 16 silver and 12 bronze).<\/p>\n
MKTG, faithful to its relationship with sport and the values \u200b\u200bit contributes, \u201chas been collaborating with the Spanish Paralympic Committee for five Olympic cycles -Atenas, Beijing, London, Rio de Janeiro and now Tokyo-, looking for ways to contribute to the growth of Paralympic sport ; Either by promoting business support in order to achieve successful sponsorship agreements, such as those of Liberty Seguros, Axa, Santa Luc\u00eda, or more recently \u00c1mbar or Aldi, to name just a few, or by favoring and carrying out sponsorship activations that contribute to giving voice to the paralympic movement.<\/p>\n
We are proud to have traveled this path together and our desire is to continue accompanying the Committee in the new challenges that digitization, inclusive sport or new forms of patronage, among many others, will surely bring the next 5 cycles \u201d, says Jes\u00fas Garc\u00eda , CEO of MKTG.<\/p>\n
In addition, in the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, dentsu, a group to which MKTG belongs, is the owner of the rights to the sponsorship program and hospitality.<\/p>\n
Main milestones<\/p>\n
1992 The Barcelona Olympic Games revolutionize Paralympic sport<\/p>\n
1995 The Spanish Paralympic Committee is born. Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Arroyo is the first president, a position he held until 2004. Infanta Do\u00f1a Elena was named Honorary President.<\/p>\n