In the face of difficulties, world sports people constantly show their determination and courage to overcome the epidemic through various forms. However, for the problem that the tokyo olympic games and beijing winter olympic games are only half a year away, the spokesman of the international olympic committee made it clear that, the international olympic committee will cooperate with tokyo olympic organizing committee and beijing winter olympic organizing committee to make the extension of tokyo olympic games have a positive impact on beijing winter olympic games.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 1 (reporter Wang Hengzhi) although the world sports events have been completely suspended due to the impact of the new coronavirus epidemic, the world sports people are not depressed. In the face of difficulties, world sports people constantly show their determination and courage to overcome the epidemic through various forms. However, for the problem that the tokyo olympic games and beijing winter olympic games are only half a year away, the spokesman of the international olympic committee made it clear that, the international olympic committee will cooperate with tokyo olympic organizing committee and beijing winter olympic organizing committee to make the extension of tokyo olympic games have a positive impact on beijing winter olympic games.
The biggest sports news in the past two days is the “fixed schedule” of the Tokyo Olympic Games: After the extension, the new date of the Tokyo Olympic Games is from July 23 to August 8, 2021, the Tokyo Paralympic Games is from August 24 to September 5. Although many international individual sports organizations expressed their support and adjusted their own events to “give way”, the interval between Tokyo Olympic Games and Beijing Winter Olympic Games (opening on February 4, 2022) was shortened to half a year, many people are worried about the impact. The spokesman of the International Olympic Committee told Xinhua News Agency on the 1st: “We think it will have a positive impact. The two Olympic games are close to each other without the usual interval of one and a half years, which means it is easier to pass the atmosphere of the Olympic Games from one event to the next. We will cooperate with the two organizing committees to work towards this goal.”
The same firm and confident is the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee. The handover ceremony of the torch of the Tokyo Olympic Games was held at the national football center of Fukushima prefecture on the 1st. It was once the resettlement center for the victims after the earthquake and tsunami in 2011. The Olympic torch relay was originally planned to be held here on March 26. Although the torch relay activity has been canceled with the delay of the Olympic Games, the fire lights storing the flame will be exhibited here for a month. Yukiyan, chief operation officer of Tokyo organizing committee for the Olympic Games, said: “I believe that after we defeat the new Crown epidemic next year, the Olympic flame will become a symbol for the world to celebrate the victory of mankind.” The director of the sports and culture bureau of Fukushima prefecture, nodi Cheng, also said that he believed that the torch relay of next year’s Olympic Games would still start from Fukushima, sending a strong signal to people to overcome all difficulties.
Overcoming all difficulties is the vision of the world and a test paper currently placed in front of all sports people. FIFA said on March 31 that they were studying how to provide assistance to world football affected by the new coronavirus, for example, for those national or regional leagues, continents and national or regional football associations that have suffered heavy economic losses due to the interruption of the epidemic. It is revealed that FIFA currently has a reserve of 1.5 billion dollars in its account, and they are likely to set up an aid fund before this weekend.
In Germany, many German professional football players, such as Thomas Muller and Mario Gomes, responded to the “fight against the epidemic, stay at home challenge” campaign launched by the German Federal Ministry of Health through recording and releasing videos. It is reported that 19 players have recorded videos in the Bundesliga and Germany-B professional leagues, and the German Football League (DFL) is further actively promoting this action.
While actively advocating people’s home anti-epidemic, the German football professional league is also actively looking for its own countermeasures. The first online membership meeting in the history of the league was held on March 31. Christian Severt, CEO of the league, said that he had not given up the “Ghost Race” plan this season, but it may not be possible to resume the competition with on-site audience participation this year, at the same time, the league will also make appropriate adjustments to the League entry system, including that the liquidity of club assets will no longer be used as the assessment content of next season’s entry, in order to give the club time and opportunity to deal with the financial crisis caused by the shutdown.
The financial crisis of professional clubs has actually begun to appear at present. While considering continuing to extend the suspension time of the Liberator Cup, South American Football Association paid the bonus that the club deserved during the group match in advance, to ease the financial crisis of the club.
Compared with other projects, chess projects have started more and more online competitions with the help of online platforms. On the evening of March 31, the first China-EU online go Challenge competition began to compete. The National Chess youth online team competition also announced that it would be held from April 13 to 26.
There is also sad news that Papp Diouf, the former chairman of the French Olympique de Marseille, died on March 31 at the age of 68 due to the infection of the coronavirus. On that day, many well-known athletes revealed that they were infected with the new coronavirus, including Hungarian swimming star kopash bogalacao and Cuban wrestling Olympic champion Mollina.