Lausanne, Switzerland, December 28, 2021: Olympians participating at Tokyo 2020 have donated more than 100 items to the International Olympic Committee’s Culture and Heritage collections.
The rich haul from Tokyo 2020 is among the 425 new acquisitions made by the IOC’s heritage team during 2021, all of which will head to the Olympic Museum in Lausanne and become part of Olympic heritage for posterity.
The collection from Tokyo 2020 comprised 104 donations from 28 of the 33 sports disciplines and from 34 NOCs, including 48 items from Olympic champions.
There was a special focus on the new sports and disciplines on the Olympic programme, such as surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing, resulting in the acquisition of more than 50 pieces of skateboarding equipment, surfing suits and even parts of the climbing wall.
All of these will be showcased in a brand-new exhibition at The Olympic Museum in March 2022.
A total of 41,240 photos and 7,428 hours of video were also added to the Olympic Multimedia Library (TOML) in 2021, with most of the content coming from the coverage of Tokyo 2020.
The Tokyo 2020 Official Film, directed by internationally renowned filmmaker Naomi Kawase, will be released in spring 2022.
The remit of the OFCH Heritage Unit includes acquiring, preserving, restoring, documenting and ensuring the availability of more than 90,000 artefacts, 650,000 photographs, 45,000 hours of videos and 8,800 hours of sound documents, for internal and external partners.
Source: www.ioc.org