Tokyo (AFP)

The organizers of the Tokyo Olympics unveiled on Monday health measures supposed to allow the holding at the end of the week of the first "test" events since the postponement of the Olympics to the summer of 2021 (July 23-August 8), due to the pandemic of Covid-19.

The last "test" event, comparable to a dress rehearsal before the Olympic events, took place from March 6 to 8, 2020, before the health situation deteriorated worldwide and the IOC decided to postpone the events for one year. Games.

Between now and Tokyo's high mass, eighteen events are on the program, starting with wheelchair rugby on Saturday and Sunday.

To ensure their progress without a hitch, "we try to limit contacts, handshakes (...) and to maintain distances between athletes of one meter, if two meters are not possible", detailed Hidemasa Nakamura , one of the people in charge of the organization.

Cheering will be prohibited, and common areas will be ventilated every half hour.

Fourteen "test events" will be overseen by the Tokyo-2020 Organizing Committee, the last four being the responsibility of the international federations.

The athletics events, scheduled for May 9 at the National Stadium in the Japanese capital, will be the only ones, among those organized by Tokyo-2020, to welcome foreign athletes and spectators in the stands.

On March 20, the organizers of the Olympics decided that there would be no spectators coming from abroad this summer, a measure unprecedented in Olympic history.

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