Pre-qualified for 2020 Tokyo will ensure their participation in 2021

Matching sources confirmed yesterday that the athletes who reserved their cards for the 2020 Olympic Games, which were scheduled for next summer before being postponed by the International Olympic Committee due to the new Corona virus, will guarantee participation in the next year.

The sources confirmed that the International Olympic Committee and the 32 sports federations, which were scheduled to participate in the Olympics this summer, decided after a conference call, Thursday, that about 57% of the 11,000 athletes and athletes would have participated in the Tokyo Games this summer, booked their cards to the finals, They will keep it on the new date, which will be next year.

“Thomas Bach (President of the International Olympic Committee) first explained the reasons for the delay, then said that the eligible athletes for Tokyo 2020 will automatically qualify for 2021,” said one of the conference participants.

"One of the main topics was knowing when and how the qualifiers will be organized," the source added. In some federations, many athletes are not eligible, and it takes at least three months before the Olympics to organize them. ”

Most sports, such as boxing, have been suspended or canceled due to the spread of the Covid-19 virus, while other sports, such as windsurfer, have held 90% of the qualifiers.

Another participant at a meeting, the day before yesterday, stressed that "the allocated shares are still the same", indicating that the main concern of the parties concerned was the rescheduling of the Olympic Games. v The International Olympic Committee and the Japanese government agreed last Tuesday to postpone the Tokyo Olympics because of the health situation, in an unprecedented step that affects the world's largest sporting event.

It is the first time that the games have been postponed in the recent history of the Olympics (since 1896). No date has been modified for a summer Olympics for any reason other than World War. The 1916 courses were canceled (due to the First War), and 1940 and 1944 (due to the Second War).