Tokyo Olympics / Para 3,000 children To participate in escort kids, etc.

Approximately 3,000 children will participate in the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, which is almost half a year before the opening, as escort kids who will enter with the athletes.

This was announced on the 22nd by the Tokyo Organizing Committee.

Children serve as escort kids who enter with players and ball delivery kids that carry balls used in games, nine sports such as soccer, tennis, baseball and softball in the Olympics, goal balls and blind soccer in the Paralympics. Will join.

About 3,000 children, mainly elementary school students, are recruited through local governments that have sponsor companies and competition venues, as well as Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima prefectures affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake.

Tokyo will recruit 145 people living in Tokyo who will be active in six competitions from the 23rd to the 17th of next month.

Participating children and one guardian can watch games and competitions before and after the activity.

The Organizing Committee says, "I want children to be interested in sports through the opportunity to stand with the players on the stage of dreams."