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2021 Tokyo Olympics

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2023: Japan's largest advertising agency Dentsu accused of participating in a cartel in organizing the Olympics
2021
2020: Cancellation of games due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2019
- Panasonic exoskeletons to be used at Tokyo Olympics
- Japan recycled 80 thousand tons of electronics for the manufacture of Olympic medals
2017: Facial Recognition
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2023: Japan's largest advertising agency Dentsu accused of participating in a cartel in organizing the Olympics

On February 28, 2023 Japan , prosecutors accused Dentsu of participating in the cartel in the organization. Tokyo Olympics The allegations came as part of an expanding corruption investigation surrounding the sports competition that took place in 2021. More. here

2021

Russia in 3rd place in the number of awards and in 5th in the number of gold

Record number of awards since 2004

China, Britain and the US Paralympics leaders

The intrigue about the results at the Paralympics was no less than at the Olympic Games. Until the last day, Russian athletes fought with the American for getting into the top three of the medal standings. As a result, the Russian team became the fourth - it was bypassed by the teams of China, Great Britain and the USA.

How much athletes are paid for a gold medal

Starting games without spectators

Tokyo Olympics budget exceeds $20 billion

At the end of July 2021, it became known that the budget of the Olympic Games in Tokyo exceeded $20 billion after the event was postponed in 2020. Some of these expenses include stadium renovations, construction of the Olympic Village, and marketing activities.

According to The Wall Street Journal, this $20 billion could be compensated for by income from the Olympic Games, but revenues will be lower than projected, because there are no fans planned for the Tokyo Games. Empty stadiums will cost the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games at least $800 million in losses from ticket sales.

Tokyo Olympics became the most expensive in history - $20 billion

As of July 26, 2021, ticket sales are only a small part of the problem of empty stadiums in Tokyo. According to local organizers, visitors to the Olympic Games in Japan would spend approximately $2 billion on food, transport, hotels and other goods or services.

The budget of the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games includes projected revenues from the event in Tokyo, their size is $6.7 billion, which is much lower than the estimated expenses, but even this figure includes income from fans buying tickets.

The Olympics in Japan will still generate money from sponsors and television revenues, but the overall picture of revenue is not clear and will only be known after the Olympics. According to the publication, many Olympic Games do not bring profit to the host city. For example, revenues from the 2008 games in Beijing amounted to $3.6 billion, but the host city spent more than $40 billion, and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London brought in $5.2 billion at a cost of $18 billion.

Many governments and host cities will argue that in addition to lost revenue, hosting the Olympics boosts the economy, thus creating jobs and stimulating tourism for years. These indicators are more difficult to quantify.

The world faces great difficulties. We can succeed in hosting the Olympics, "Japanese Prime Minister, Yoshihide Suga, said on Monday.

If the Olympic Games were canceled, the IOC would have to return almost $4 billion to its broadcast partners. Since 2008, the Olympic Games have not made much economic sense for host cities, as the cost of holding them continues to increase rapidly, and the income from the event decreases. Due to the pandemic, the Tokyo Olympics have even less economic meaning than all previous ones.^[1]

2020: Cancellation of games due to the COVID-19 pandemic

The 2020 Summer Olympics have been canceled due to the COVID-19 epidemic.

2019

Panasonic exoskeletons to be used at Tokyo Olympics

At the end of September 2019 Panasonic , she announced a collaboration with, in World Powerlifting Steam Federation (WPPO) which exoskeletons the Japanese company will be used at the Paralympic Games in powerlifting Tokyo competitions among athletes with musculoskeletal disorders. More. here

Japan recycled 80 thousand tons of electronics for the manufacture of Olympic medals

On July 24, 2019, it became known that Japan processed almost 80 thousand tons of mobile phones and other electronics to make medals for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo.

The design of the medals that will be awarded to athletes was shown on July 24 - exactly a year before the start of the competition in 2020.

Medal designs for Tokyo Olympic Games to be held in 2020

The medals are partially made of used electronics, including 6.21 million recycled mobile phones, which the Japanese handed over to the cellular company NTT.

For two years, the authorities held an action, according to the results of which they managed to collect 78,985 thousand tons of electronics (smartphones, tablets, laptops, digital cameras, etc.). Thanks to the launched program, they managed to extract 32 kg of gold, 3.5 tons of silver and 2.2 tons of bronze.

This action has become profitable for the Japanese, since electronic devices cannot be thrown away , and you have to pay for disposal.

The gold medal for the Olympics is made of pure silver and is covered with 6 g of gold, its weight is 556 g, the silver medal consists of pure silver and weighs 550 g, the bronze medal is red brass (95% copper and 5% zinc) weighing 450 g. The diameter of the medal is 85 mm, the thickness varies from 7.7 to 12.1 mm.

Each of the medals features a spherical Tokyo Olympics emblem with the traditional Japanese "ichimatsu" pattern of staggered white and indigo quadrangles. On all sides it is framed by a three-dimensional multifaceted "vortex." The reverse side shows the goddess Nika from ancient Greek mythology. The author of the design of the medals was the Japanese Junichi Kawanishi.

The official website of the organizing committee says that the design of the medals reflects the concept of achieving fame by athletes.

The medals resemble rough stones that have been polished and are now shining, the report said.^[2]

2017: Facial Recognition

In December 2017, it became known that facial recognition technology will be used at the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo to make it easier for athletes, officials and journalists to enter the venues. In view of concern about the issue of terrorism, the organizers of the Games seek to strengthen security and prevent the use of other people's ID cards or fake photos.

Digital verification will make it harder for such abuses to happen and is likely to reduce waiting times. Facial recognition would therefore be an additional security and identification measure, beyond the ID cards that would be issued to all Olympic competitors.

Japan to launch facial recognition system at Olympics to allow athletes, officials and journalists to access sports grounds

Taking into account that face recognition will not be applied to viewers, the number of those who will be scanned may be about 300-400 thousand people, according to The Japan Times.

The organizing committee has already tested similar technology during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Then the system was engaged in a stream of media personnel entering the Japanese information center Japan House. Success turned out to be very moderate, as there were complaints about the long wait. The committee hopes to address this and other system issues before the Tokyo Games, which begin at the end of July 2020.

This facial recognition technology was developed by NEC, which has one of the most accurate systems in the world, capable of recognizing even those who performed plastic surgery, as well as distinguishing identical twins. The system has already been successfully tested by the Japanese Justice Institute, which installed specially designed facial recognition devices at the entrance to Tokyo's Haneda Airport in October 2017. At the Tokyo Olympics, such technology is expected to be used in more than 40 locations, including competition venues and media centers.^[3]