Opening tonight: What else to watch for the Tokyo Olympics where no one is shouting?

With many variables such as the epidemic, vaccines, and huge costs, will the Tokyo Olympics, which no one shouts about, become the most inexistent Olympics in history?

For the three members of the South African national men’s football team and the coach of the rugby team Powell (Neil Powell), their journey to the Tokyo Olympics ended when they entered Japan because they tested positive for nucleic acid when they arrived at the Japanese airport. According to the Tokyo Olympics’ epidemic prevention code, this means that they must spend 14 days in a designated isolation facility, and if they want to return to the Olympics, unless their team can reach the semi-finals.

As people related to the Olympics continue to be diagnosed in the Olympic Village, both the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee are “walking a tightrope” between the epidemic and the competition. Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee CEO Toshiro Muto even gave a strong hint that the competition might be terminated at any time due to the epidemic.

As the new crown pneumonia epidemic sweeps the world in 2020, the world’s largest sporting event, the 2020 Summer Olympics, has also been postponed for an unprecedented year. On July 23, after a year of preparation time, the Tokyo Olympics will be held at 20:00 local time in Japan (19:00 Beijing time). There are 33 major events and 339 minor events in this Olympic Games. There are about 19,000 athletes and 41,000 support personnel.

With many variables such as the epidemic, sky-high Olympic expenses, and the dismissal of the chief director of the opening ceremony at the last moment, has the Tokyo Olympics, which no one shouted about, become the “most non-existent” Olympic Games in history?

The most deserted opening ceremony?

The opening ceremony is the highlight of all previous Olympic Games. According to Japanese media reports, about 950 people are currently expected to participate in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games held at the Japan National Arena on the evening of the 23rd, and it was initially expected to be about 10,000. The Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee said that due to space restrictions, it is not ruled out that the number of people at the last minute will still be reduced.

In the list of people expected to attend the opening ceremony, there are about 150 relevant people in Japan, such as Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and other Japanese government and parliament officials, as well as local officials, Tokyo Governor Koike Yuriko, and Olympic Organizing Committee Chairman Hashimoto Son and so on.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said recently that he would not participate in the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics on the 23rd. Since he resigned as Prime Minister of Japan due to health reasons in the middle of last year, Abe has served as the highest honorary advisor to the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee.

The list of about 800 foreign related persons mainly includes members of the International Olympic Committee, politicians of various countries, representatives of the International Individual Sports Federation (IF) and National and Regional Olympic Committees (NOC), and relevant people in the future Olympic Games host city. , TV stations and sponsor representatives with broadcasting rights, etc.

US President Biden and South Korean President Moon Jae-in have confirmed that they will not attend the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics. Japanese media said that there may be fewer than 30 leaders of foreign and international organizations attending the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics. This will be the least in recent years.

Earlier, French President Macron stated that he would attend the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics. France is the host country of the next Olympics.

In terms of sponsors, due to the lack of space, many sponsor executives, including Toyota, chose not to attend the opening ceremony due to brand image considerations. At the same time, the top leaders of Japan’s three major economic groups also collectively expressed that they would be absent.

Do you have a doll on the seat?

As we all know, in March, the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee declined overseas audiences to enter Japan to watch the Olympic Games on the grounds of epidemic prevention. At the end of June, the mutated strain “Delta” made Japan’s epidemic situation tense again. The Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee made the decision to host the Olympics in an “empty field”, namely in Tokyo and neighboring Kanagawa, Chiba and Saitama prefectures , And all games in Hokkaido and Fukushima prefectures will be held empty; stadiums in Miyagi, Ibaraki and Shizuoka prefectures will allow spectators to enter the stadium, but not more than 50% of the stadium capacity, and the total must not exceed 10,000 people.

As a result, the 724 games (about 96%) of the Olympic Games will be held without spectators, and only 26 games will allow spectators to enter the stadium.

For the Olympians, how do they decide to win in an empty stadium?

According to Japanese media reports, some venues will arrange puppets on empty seats, and at the same time broadcast applause and shouts from previous games to cheer and cheer the athletes.

Can the “hydrogen energy revolution” be set off?

If there is no disruption to the epidemic, the Japanese government planned to show the development of its hydrogen energy technology to the international community at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

The information obtained by the reporter from the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee shows that from the Olympic torch to the shuttle bus, and even the large-scale Olympic Village, hydrogen energy can be found. Among them, the Olympic flame is fueled by hydrogen, and the relay torch consists of five cylinders, supplemented by heart-shaped petals. Each “petal” generates flames and converges in the center. The combustion zone adopts many technological innovations to meet the application of hydrogen technology, and utilizes modern aluminum extrusion casting technology used in the manufacturing of Shinkansen trains in Japan.

On the road between the stadium and the Olympic Village, Toyota’s hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are used as the main shuttle vehicles for the Olympic Games. However, because most of the stadiums are arranged “empty”, Toyota has reduced the number of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles it provides to about 4,000. In addition, the Olympic Village, which is built with 6,000 buildings, has been directly connected to hydrogen through the construction of underground hydrogen pipelines, and has also become a building that uses hydrogen fuel.

The Japanese government planned to fully launch the “Hydrogen Energy Society” plan after the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Looking back in history, when the 1964 Summer Olympic Games first landed in Japan, the organizers used propane as the flame fuel. After the game, a “kitchen revolution” was set off in Japan, and gas stoves entered thousands of households. Can Japan set off a “hydrogen energy revolution” this time?

How to control the epidemic?

According to data compiled by the Japan Broadcasting Association Television Station (NHK), as of 18:00 on the 22nd, Japan had 5,397 new confirmed cases of the new crown on that day, and the number of new confirmed cases in a single day exceeded 5,000 again after 2 months. At present, Japan has a total of 857,900 confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia, and a total of 15,108 deaths.

In the single week as of the 22nd, Tokyo had an average of 1373 new confirmed cases in a single day, which was about 1.56 times the number of the previous week.

The latest statistics from the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee show that 87 people have been diagnosed with the Olympics. Prior to this, the “epidemic prevention bubble” elaborately designed by the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee had already burst. Some Japanese medical experts believe that according to this trend, Tokyo may have more than 3,000 new confirmed cases in a single day in early August, and more than 5,000 in late August.

Starting on the 22nd, Japan has entered a four-day holiday to welcome the Olympics. Suga Yoshihide once again called on the public on the 21st not to go out and watch TV at home to cheer for the Olympic athletes.