The Tokyo Summer Olympics closed on Sunday, bringing the curtain down on the major sporting event that takes place every four years, which lasted 16 days, with plenty of excitement and drama on and off the field.
The following is a summary of the most important facts and figures for the postponed session last year due to Corona:
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Firstly.
17 world records
The negative impact of the pandemic on the training of athletes did not reduce the strength of the competitions, and the Tokyo Olympics witnessed the breaking of 17 different world records.
The rowing competitions, which differ in calculating their numbers from the rest of the sports according to the conditions of the competition venues, witnessed 5 new numbers.
In athletics, she broke 3 records by Norway's Carsten Varholm in the 400-meter hurdles, the American Sydney McLaughlin in the women's race, and Venezuela's Yulimar Rojas in the women's triple jump.
3 other records were broken in cycling, while 6 new records appeared in swimming, and the new records included shooting as well as sports climbing in her first Olympic appearance.
Georgian weightlifter Lasha Talakhadze broke 3 world records in one competition in the men's 109-kg jerk, as well as the snatch and total.
Qatari weightlifter Faris Ibrahim also set a new Olympic record for the 96-kg category, lifting 177 kg in the snatch competitions and 225 kg in the jerk competitions, with a total weight of 402 kg.
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Second.
Absence of the audience
The course was held without an audience due to the outbreak of the rapidly contagious and spreading Corona virus, so that the encouragement in the stands was limited to coaches, members of technical teams and officials, and this could mean significant financial losses for the Tokyo host, which was hoping to compensate for some of the costs of organization and hosting by selling tickets.
The organizers of the tournament had hoped for a public attendance limited to 50% and a maximum of 10,000 fans from the local audience, but they were forced to abandon the idea of ​​mass attendance completely after Tokyo declared a state of emergency for the fourth time with the increase in infections.
These steps have damaged the hotel and restaurant sector in the Japanese capital, and may cause significant financial losses of about 151 billion yen ($1.4 billion), according to figures from the Nomura Research Institute.
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Third.
11 thousand athletes
About 11,000 athletes from 42 locations across the country participated in the course, including the northern island of Hokkaido, which hosted the last event of the course, the marathon, due to the mild summer temperatures.
Athletes from 205 National Olympic Committees and a refugee team competed for 339 medals.
The International Olympic Committee says that nearly half of the participants were women.
🔥 Extinguishing the Olympic flame, marking the end of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
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Fourthly.
6 months
The next Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing from February 4-20, making the Chinese capital the first city to host the Summer and Winter Games.
The next summer session will be held in the French capital, Paris, starting from 27 July 2024. In this, France pledged steps aimed at preserving the environment and adhering to the terms of the Paris Climate Agreement by using only renewable energy and then completely eliminating waste.
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