2020 Summer Olympics (English: 2020 Summer Olympics) is the 32nd Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan from July 23rd to August 8th, with a duration of 17 days.
20 13 Tokyo was selected as the host city during the125th meeting of the International Olympic Committee held in Buenos Aires, Argentina on September 7th. The 2020 Olympic Games is the fourth Olympic Games held in Japan after the 1964 Tokyo (summer), 1972 Sapporo (winter) and 1998 Nagano (winter) Olympic Games.
Tokyo is the first city in Asia to host the Summer Olympics twice. The 2020 Olympic Games is the second time for three consecutive Olympic Games in East Asia after the 20 18 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea and the previous 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China.
Due to the serious spread of coronavirus disease in the world in 20 19, this event is the first postponed Olympic Games in history. In addition to the postponement, the media has repeatedly reported that the Japanese government will announce the cancellation of hosting this Olympic Games and bid for the 2032 Olympic Games instead. The Japanese government and the International Olympic Committee have repeatedly denied that this Olympic Games will be cancelled.
Theme slogan
In February 2020, Weibo, the official of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, announced that the slogan of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics was "Unity through Emotion".
And wrote: This summer, Tokyo will welcome visitors and volunteers from all over the world, as well as athletes and refugee Olympic team members from more than 200 countries and regions. People will get together because of Tokyo 2020. Tokyo 2020 will transcend all differences such as nationality, race, gender and culture, and people will integrate with each other and get to know each other better.
On the evening of 20021July 14, BOCOG announced the concept of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympic Games, all of which were published in English only.
Among them, the concept of the opening ceremony, like the slogan of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, is "feeling like brothers", which means "feeling like brothers" in Chinese; The concept of the closing ceremony is "the world we share", which means "the world we enjoy" in Chinese.