The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially the XXXII Olympic Games and commonly known as Tokyo 2020, is an annual international multi-sport event to be held in Tokyo, Japan. These Games were originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, but on 24 March 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo Organizing Committee announced the Games to be postponed until 2021, and to be held no later than the summer of 2021. The Olympics will now be publicly announced and advertised as Tokyo 2020, but the timeline varies. On 7 September 2013, Tokyo was selected as the host city at the 125th IOC Session held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is expected to be the second time that Japan has hosted the Summer Olympic Games, particularly Tokyo, the first being in 1964, making it the first Asian city to host the Summer Games twice. Ultimately this will be the fourth Olympic Games in Japan, which previously hosted Winter Olympics in 1972. The 2020 Games will be the second of three consecutive Olympics in East Asia, the first being the 2018 Pyeongchang County Winter Olympics in South Korea and the second being the 2022 Beijing, China Winter Olympics. These games are likely to see the introduction of new and extended Summer Olympics competitions, including 3x3 basketball, BMX freestyle, and running Madison, as well as more sports combined. Under updated IOC rules allowing the host organising committee to add events to the Olympic programme and extend the existing core Olympic tournaments, karate, sport climbing, sailing and skateboarding are scheduled to make their Olympic debuts, as well as adding baseball and softball for the first time since 2008. The latest mascot for Summer Olympics 2020 is Miraitowa, a character with blue-checkered patterns inspired by the games ' official logo. The fictitious abilities include the ability to teleport. The mascots were selected from a selection process, created by the Japanese artist Ryo Taniguchi in late 2017 and early 2018. A total of 2,042 candidate designs were submitted to the Tokyo Organizing Committee, which picked three pairs of unnamed mascot designs to make the final decision for elementary school students in Japan. The findings of the selection were announced on 28 February 2018, and the mascots were named on 22 July 2018. Miraitowa is named after the Japanese words for "may" and "eternity," and Someity is named after certainiyoshino, a type of cherry blossom. Someity's name also refers to the English word "too tall." The mascots are hoped to help finance the Tokyo Games through merchandising and licencing deals. Sony and Panasonic are partnering with NHK to create broadcast standards for 8 K resolution Television, planning to introduce 8 K TV sets in time for the 2020 Olympics. RAI, an Italian broadcaster, announced that it plans to begin 8 K Olympic coverage. It will be the first European Summer Olympics under the IOC's latest pan-European rights deal with Eurosport which began at the 2018 Winter Olympics and is scheduled to continue until 2024. The rights to the 2020 Summer Olympics cover nearly all of Europe, with Russia losing until 2024 because of a pre-existing deal with a marketer. In each region, Eurosport plans to sub-license free-to-air network access as well as other networks operated by Discovery Inc .. It will be the last Games in the UK where rights are owned exclusively by the BBC, albeit as a part of a sub-licensing agreement agreed for the Games 2022 and 2024; Eurosport has complete power of pay-television. These are also the last Games in France, the rights to which France Télévisions mainly retain. As pay TV rights operator, Eurosport is expected to make its debut after Canal+ has agreed to divest its pay TV rights due to cost-saving measures. France Télévisions plans to get the Eurosport Games sub-licensed in 2022 and 2024.
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2012 Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics, formally the XXX Olympic Games and commonly known as London 2012, was an international multi-sport event held from July 27th to August 12th 2012 in London, United Kingdom. The first game, the women's round of football competition, began at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium on July 25, followed by the opening ceremony on July 27. 10,768 athletes from 204 Individual Olympic Bodies participated in this. On 6 July 2005, London was selected as the host city at the 117th IOC Session in Singapore after a bid led by former Olympic champion Sebastian Coe and then London Mayor Ken Livingstone, beating offers from Moscow, New York City, Madrid and Paris. London was the first city to host the modern Olympics three times, having previously hosted the Summer Games in 1908 and 1948. Design for the Games has required substantial redesign, including a emphasis on sustainability. The goal was a new 200-hectare Olympic Park, built on a former factory site in Stratford, east London. The Games have permitted the use of already-existing pre-bid venues. The Games also earned general admiration for their operation, especially strongly admired by the volunteers, the British military and the enthusiasm of the public. Danny Boyle's opening ceremony received widespread global acclaim, broad praise from the Uk public and a range of wide-ranging backlash from various social media outlets. After the Olympics Michael Phelps becomes the most decorated Olympic athlete ever, winning his 22nd Medal. The first female athletes joined Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Brunei, and each now qualifying nation sent a female athlete to at least one Olympic Games. Women's wrestling was included in the first period, and the Games were the first at which women competed in each competition. They were the final Olympic Games under the IOC presidency of Belgian Jacques Rogge, to be succeeded by German Thomas Bach the following year. The United States led the final count for the gold, followed by China and Great Britain as host. Many world and olympic records have been set at the games. Although some controversies have arisen, the 2012 games have been considered extremely successful with increasing standards of excellence among nations around the world, packed stadiums and smooth organisation. In reality, the sport history and restoration focus at the post-games venue, much like the Atlanta Summer Olympics in 1996, has been used as a blueprint for future Olympics. Muse's "Survival" has been announced as the official music of the Olympics, to be used for the games ' worldwide media outlets. The Royal Mail asked artists and illustrators to create 30 stamps, distributed in lots of 10 between 2009 and 2011, in August 2009. The last one published July 22, 2011. To commemorate the Olympics, crafted by Saiman Miah, two £ 5 coins were made. As other Olympics since 1952, the Royal Mint will draw upon a collection of one-kilogram gold and silver commemorative coins. "Inspire a century" is the official theme for Summer Olympics 2012 It was chosen to show the promoter's commitment to inspiring the world to participate in athletic competitions through the history of its athletics, particularly the younger generations. The mascots for the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympic Games were unveiled on 19 May 2010. Wenlock and Mandeville are animations showing two drops of steel from a steelworks at Bolton. They are named after Much Wenlock, a city in Shropshire that houses a reference to the modern Olympic Games, and Stoke Mandeville, a village in Buckinghamshire where there was a reference to the first Paralympic Games. Michael Morpurgo, the artist, wrote the concept of mascot storey, and created an animation. Two storeys have been built for the mascots: from A Rainbow and Adventures On A Rainbow. In the lead-up to the Olympics there were disagreements about sponsorship, the athletes ' use of social media and other foreign issues. Following a long lottery process, thousands of participants qualified to obtain tickets for the events they chose, but a large number of empty seats were noticed during the tournaments, particularly at some of the most popular competitions. Speculation was raised that this was due to corporate donors ' inability to use the tickets they'd received.
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