China News Service, October 30. According to a report by the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK) on the 29th, a source from the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee recently revealed that the order of admission for the delegations at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics, which will be postponed to July 2021 Sort by Japanese kana.
Data map: Japan National Arena, the main venue of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games.
According to reports, the admission order of the delegations at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics is: the first two are the Greek delegation and the refugee delegation, the last three are the United States, the host of the 2028 Summer Olympics, the 2024 host France, and the current host Japan. .
According to the report, in addition to the above-mentioned delegations that determine the order, in accordance with the IOC’s stipulation that “the order of admission should be determined by the order of the characters in the host country’s language table”, other delegations will be Admission in order.
For example, at the Rio Olympics in 2016 and the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in 2018, the order of delegation entry was sorted by the pronunciation of Portuguese and Korean respectively.
According to reports, although Japan hosted three Olympic Games (including the Winter Olympics) in 1964, 1972 and 1998 respectively, since the International Olympic Committee had not formulated this rule at that time, the admission order at that time was used. The alphabetical order of the English language also means that this Tokyo Olympics will be the first time in the history of the Olympic Games to formulate the order of appearances based on the Japanese kana.
Affected by the new crown epidemic, the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, originally scheduled to be held in July 2020, have been postponed to July 23 and August 24, 2021, respectively.