On the evening of the 30th Beijing time, the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games set a new date. The ITTF responded immediately and expressed support for this decision, and promised to make corresponding adjustments to the Olympic qualifier within next month.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 30, on the evening of 30th Beijing time, the Tokyo Olympic Games and Paralympic Games set a new date. The International Table Tennis Federation responded immediately and expressed support for this decision, and promised to make corresponding adjustments to the Olympic qualifier within next month.
According to the joint statement issued by the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic Committee, the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Japanese government, the “Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games” with the reserved name will be held from July 23 to August 8, 2021, the Tokyo Paralympic Games will be held from August 24 to September 5, 2021.
The International Table Tennis Federation soon issued a statement to “praise” the new decision “. President Thomas Victor said: “The Sports Federation of 33 Summer Olympic events unanimously supports the new Olympic date selected by the International Olympic Committee, which further shows that in this difficult period, we need to unite together to overcome the difficulties.”
Raul Carlin, the secretary-general of the International Table Tennis Federation, said: “The new date has been finalized. After receiving the relevant guidelines, we will cooperate with the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic Committee, the intercontinental association and the athletes committee work closely together to make corresponding adjustments to the Olympic qualifier.”
Carlin added that he hoped to complete this process within April this year so that relevant parties could have enough time to adjust their plans.
The day before, the ITTF just announced to postpone the world table tennis team championship again and suspend all ITTF events and activities that require international travel before June 30, and make a series of measures such as freezing the world ranking and tightening the finance of the executive committee on the table tennis system affected by the epidemic.
The group World Table Tennis Championships scheduled to be held in Busan, South Korea this month were announced to be postponed to late June at the end of February. With the global spread of the new coronavirus epidemic, the ITTF decided to postpone it again. The specific holding time will be announced next week. Before the Tokyo Olympic Games were postponed, the ITTF once discussed alternatives to the Olympic qualifier such as determining quotas in the world rankings.
In the current competition system of the International Table Tennis Federation, the World Table Tennis Championships and the World Cup, which are called the three major events of table tennis in the Olympic Games, are held once a year. Among them, the single world table tennis championships are held in a few years, and the group World Table Tennis Championships are held in quantity, it is usually held in the first half of the year, while the men’s and women’s World Cups are usually held in the second half of the year.