China has announced that it will send a delegation of 777 people to the Tokyo Olympics, which will start next week, which will be the largest ever overseas competition.
On the other hand, it has not yet been clarified whether or not to dispatch the special representatives dispatched at the last summer and winter competitions.
On the 14th, the Chinese Olympic Committee announced a list of delegations such as athletes and staff dispatched to the Tokyo Olympics.
According to this, the delegation will be 777 people including 431 athletes, and will be headed by Mr. Kou, the director of the General Administration of Sport of China, which has jurisdiction over sports under the Chinese government.
The scale is the largest ever for a tournament to be held overseas.
On the other hand, the Chinese government in the winter of Pyeongchang (Pyeongchang) tournament of the last 2016 years of the Rio de Janeiro convention and 2018, but has been dispatched to members of the Deputy Prime Minister and Communist Party highest leadership as the Special Representative of Xi Jinping Jintao, It has not yet been announced whether or not it will be dispatched to the Tokyo Games.
While the United States has decided to attend the opening ceremony of Mrs. Jill Biden, the president's wife, the Chinese government has just barely considered the infection status of the new coronavirus in Tokyo, where the fourth state of emergency has been declared. It seems that they will try to determine the possibility of dispatching a special representative.
* Kou is "Kusakanmuri ni Kaku"