TOKYO: Japan commenced the unprecedented job of reorganising the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Wednesday after making the hard decision to postpone the Games by a year as the coronavirus pandemic locks down one third of the planet.
The remarkable step to shift the Olympics, never prior to seen in peacetime, overthrows every aspect of the organisation– consisting of locations, security, ticketing and accommodation.
In a move symbolic of the difficulties now dealing with Tokyo, Olympic countdown clocks in the city changed from showing the number of days to go, rather merely showing today’s date and the time.
” It resembles taking 7 years to construct the world’s greatest jigsaw puzzle and, with just one piece to go, having to start once again now with less time to complete,” tweeted Craig Spence, representative for the International Paralympic Committee.
It is not even clear exactly when the rescheduled Games will occur, with the International Olympic Committee stating the brand-new date would be “beyond 2020 but not behind summer season 2021”.
Japan has actually framed Tokyo 2020 as the “Healing Games”– a chance to show the world it has