Lausanne, Switzerland, March 4, 2020: On the second day of the IOC Executive Board meeting, the organising committees of Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022 reported on their progress.
At the opening of the Tokyo 2020 report, the IOC Executive Board once again underlined its full commitment to the success of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, taking place from 24 July to 9 August.
In addition to an update on the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee updated the EB on the many advances that have been made over the last few months.
*The marathon course in Sapporo was approved late last year and the venues are on time.
*Tokyo 2020 has appointed the Olympic Village Mayor, Deputy Mayor and seven Associate Mayors. The Olympic Village Mayor is Saburo Kawabuchi, a 1964 Olympian, while the Deputy Mayor is Haruki Uemura, a gold medallist in judo at the Olympic Games Montreal 1976.
*Last month, Tokyo 2020 unveiled its Games motto: “United by Emotion”.
*Tokyo has also achieved an Olympic and Paralympic first through the launch of its new kinetic sports pictograms for each of the 33 Olympic and 22 Paralympic sports.
*The Tokyo organisers have sold 4.5 million tickets and have received 80 million requests.
*Around 80,000 prospective Games volunteers took part in general training sessions from October 2019 to February 2020.
*The Olympic Torch Relay will begin on 12 March with the lighting of the flame in Olympia. The Relay in Japan will start on 26 March and will tour all 47 prefectures over 121 days.
BEIJING 2022
*Beijing 2022 has launched its volunteer programme and has received over 670,000 applications.
*The high-speed railway linking Beijing to Yanqing and Zhangjiakou has also been opened, greatly reducing travel times.
*Despite having to cancel the first official test event, the organisers pointed out that the Alpine venue in Yanqing had held the 14th Chinese national winter games.
Source: www.olympic.org