Baseball and softball will be one-off additions to the Games, as neither is currently slated to be a part of the Paris Olympics. The baseball competition will be men only, while softball will be women only, which is why most lists seem to combine these two sports when counting the number of new Olympic sports being added, coming up with five instead of six. Six countries including the U. When to watch: The baseball tournament will take place July 27 through August 7.
Softball will take place from July 24 through July Karate, which originated in Japan, will be making its debut as an Olympic sport—something enthusiasts have been lobbying for since the s, the IOC says. The Tokyo Games will feature two karate disciplines: kata form demonstrations, where athletes are judged on technique and kumite a mat competition where athletes compete head to head.
The karate events will take place at the Nippon Budokan, which hosted the first World Karate Championships in Skateboarding will be added to the program for the first time in the Tokyo Olympics, taking the street sport fully mainstream.
The Tokyo Games will feature two skateboard disciplines, park and street, both of which will have prelims and finals. The park competitions will take place in a smooth, dome-shaped bowl, and competitors will be scored on originality and the difficulty of their tricks. The Olympics have also suffered from a systemic inability of the organizers to properly control costs and to estimate expenditures. Oxford researchers Bent Flyvbjerg, Allison Stewart, and Alexander Budzier have reported that between and , the average Olympic Games went percent over budget.
Furthermore, severely curtailed in-person audiences are likely to reduce domestic sponsorship revenues and may even contribute to lower international television ratings. But these negative impacts to the bottom line are only a fraction of a troubling deficit in the tens of billions of dollars, losses that were inevitable even before COVID decimated spectator sports across the globe, reflecting a systemic problem with the economic model of the Olympics.
Another significant factor driving cost escalation has been the bidding process itself which pits cities against one another. A winning bid not only needs to show how the host will successfully manage the competition, a massive undertaking in and of itself, but also how it will generate more amenities, more prestige, and more revenue to the IOC than any other competing bid, leading to an arms race where proposals are increasingly lavish and increasingly expensive.
It is too early to tell whether this latest reform will lower hosting costs significantly. In many ways, the current situation echoes the crisis faced by the IOC forty-three years ago. In the wake of several Olympic disasters including the terrorist attacks at Munich Olympics in , a financial debacle that included a major boycott by African nations in Montreal in , and a rejection by Colorado voters of the proposed Winter Olympics in Denver in the same year, the IOC was left with only a single bidder for the Summer Olympics.
As the only viable candidate, Los Angeles was able to dictate the terms of the contract to the IOC rather than the other way around, and the event earned the organizers substantial profit with little public sector funding required.
Unfortunately for future taxpayers, multiple bidders and extravagant bids soon became the norm once again. The cycle of strong competitive bidding, followed by astronomical hosting costs, then by reduced demand for hosting and greater leverage for the prospective hosts, seems to be repeating itself. The IOC will have to accommodate the waning demand from prospective host cities if it wants to preserve the spectacle of the modern Games. Never overestimate the power of eyeballs or assume you need ice in your veins—or any kind of veins, actually.
Eat your heart out, Steph Curry. Ikee had high hopes for Olympic medals in Tokyo after winning six golds at the Asian Games in Jakarta, but she was diagnosed with leukemia in The year-old Tokyo native finished fifth in a heat of the frees and was part of the 4 x meter medley relay team that made the final, but finished last of eight teams. Still, her remarkable recovery bodes well for a bright future and perhaps another swim or two in Paris.
On Aug. I hope he keeps wrestling, so I can one day meet him in a matchup! It was quite a bold forecast for a young man to make, but maybe not for one who was named for Dan Gable, perhaps the greatest U. The aftermath was magical. In Tokyo, Steveson trailed Akgul, , in the kg Olympic final with just 15 seconds left in the match, but he rallied for an improbable four points, including a two-point takedown just before time expired, to take the match, , and win the gold medal. Steveson got his wish and his gold medal.
Six Olympic teams enjoyed medal firsts in Tokyo, as athletes from three delegations won their first medals and three captured their first gold medals in their respective histories. Here is the list:. With a population of 34,, it is the smallest country ever to win an Olympic medal. One other first: Japanese judokas Hifumi and Uta Abe became the first siblings to win gold medals on the same day in different events i.
Hifumi won gold at 66 kg. Uta won gold at 52 kg. By capturing a silver medal with the U. Alvarez also won a silver in the meter relay in short-track speedskating at the Sochi Games in The other dual medalists are Eddy Eagan U. This goes to the people of Japan and, more specifically, Tokyo. Under conditions few could have imagined, the city held an Olympics that few people wanted, at least not now.
Usually Olympics provide citizens a chance to show off their city and their culture. Granted, the Games are always a mixed blessing. They often leave behind splashy infrastructure and sizable debt. But the impressions last. Just ask people in Barcelona how their tourist numbers ballooned in the years after hosting an Olympics.
But these were an Olympics held largely in quarantine, without spectators and tourists, and with non-competition facilities that those of us here on approved, official business were unable to patronize. Yet at almost every turn, the credentialed among us were greeted with warmth and hospitality in the face of pandemic and organizational fatigue, and understandable concern that locals have for themselves, their friends and families.
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