China News Service Client, Beijing, April 22 (Wang Yu) The 2020 Tokyo Olympics has made a decision to postpone nearly a month since today. In this unexpected shock of the sports world, the derivative crisis caused by the delay It also gradually surfaced. Under the changing circumstances, every organization and individual, including the International Olympic Committee, the Japanese government and the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee, is facing great impact and challenges.
The Olympic countdown card on the streets of Tokyo restarts timing.
"The postponement of the Tokyo Olympics is like a very complicated puzzle, which requires all participants in the Olympic movement to negotiate and complete." As the International Olympic Committee Operations Director Pierre Ducre said, the extension of the Tokyo Olympics is not just a change of date Simple, extra costs, athlete guarantees, sponsors and partners' rights fulfillment ... The many problems presented to all parties are making the solution urgent.
Who bears the extra cost of the word "money"?
In order to successfully host the Tokyo Olympics, Japan has devoted a lot of effort. The Tokyo Olympic Committee ’s budget for the end of 2019 shows that the operating costs directly related to the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics are as high as 1.35 trillion yen.
But this is still not the total expenditure of the current Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. If related public construction, volunteer training, barrier-free facilities subsidies, advertising tourism and other matters, the total expenditure will reach 3 trillion yen.
Beds, tables, wardrobes and other furniture used in the Olympic Village and Paralympic Villages of the Tokyo Olympic Games were unveiled. The bed legs were made of cardboard.
Since the Tokyo Olympic Games has been postponed, the additional costs incurred have always been the focus of attention. Previously, according to Japanese media estimates, its figure may reach about 300 billion yen.
Who bears the high cost that appears out of thin air? Christopher Dolby, executive director of the Olympic Games at the International Olympic Committee, gave the answer on April 3. He said that the extra expenses for the postponement of the Olympic Games will be shared by the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo Olympic Committee.
On April 16, the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee held a video conference to reach a framework agreement on the issues faced by the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics. The two sides agreed to establish a joint steering committee to oversee all preparations throughout the process and minimize delays due to delays. Resulting in additional expenses.
The development of this matter has made the outside world seem that "money" has not shaken the determination of the two to go through the rare difficulties in the history of modern Olympics.
But the foreshadowing of the whole incident was buried.
Exterior view of Japan National Arena
The International Olympic Committee has indicated that it will add an estimated "hundreds of millions of dollars" of funds, but its coordinating committee chairman Coates revealed on the 16th that the additional funds are limited to "burdening related Olympic sports", and cited the International Sports Federation With the support of the Olympic Committees of various countries and regions, the question of whether they will be able to bear the additional costs of the Olympic Games will be avoided.
With the announcement of a statement by the International Olympic Committee on the 20th, the relationship between the two parties has become more subtle.
The statement stated that in terms of the additional costs caused by the postponement of the Olympics, "Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has agreed to continue to be borne by Japan in accordance with the current contract conditions." The IOC's statement was immediately refuted by the Japanese side. A press conference on the 21st denied that "agreement is not true."
Original text published on the official website of the International Olympic Committee
One stone ignited thousands of waves, and the IOC's statement caused more and more opposition from Japan.
Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee spokesperson Masatoshi Takaya immediately stated that the International Olympic Committee should not unilaterally declare Tokyo to be the bearer of the extra expenses caused by the postponement of the Olympic Games, nor should it be announced in the name of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee Chairman Yoshiro Mori also declared that the IOC ’s burden “cannot be completely zero”.
A report by Kyodo News pointed out the embarrassing situation between the two. The report wrote: "The International Olympic Committee has more prominently forced the Japanese side to bear the posture."
The revised article of the International Olympic Committee
Under pressure, the IOC official revised the content to read: "The Japanese government reiterates that they are ready to fulfill their responsibility to host a successful Olympic Games." But the extra expenditure that is still in the statistics so far has also become the Tokyo Olympic Games Luo Shengmen, the most confusing after the delay.
More than athletes who suffer from periodic changes
An additional "hundreds of millions of dollars" in funding from the International Olympic Committee has become a foreshadowing of their mutual ties with Japan.
However, as the "third party" of the entire event, many international individual sports organizations in the Olympic Games are also in urgent need of this "support" to alleviate the Tokyo Olympics postponement of one year, bringing them the financial situation may fall into crisis.
If the Tokyo Olympics are held as scheduled, the original 28 international Olympic sports organizations should have received the International Olympic Committee ’s four-year-old “dividends” this year, and the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics has frozen this dividend.
For many international individual sports organizations, this amount is the key to maintaining the next cycle of operation.
The Japanese Ariake Gymnasium was built and opened for hosting volleyball and wheelchair basketball games
"For many projects, this money is very important," said Andrew Ryan, president of the International Federation of Individual Sports Organizations for the Summer Olympics. "The business models of these projects are different. They usually do n’t have much reserves. If the Olympics Dividends cannot be given in time, and serious problems will arise in the cash flow of these individual sports organizations. "
The postponement of the Tokyo Olympics has led to the adjustment of many large single events to be held next year. More realistically, most of the events this year have been cancelled or postponed due to the impact of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic.
The tightening of economic sources has allowed the International Single Sports Federation, including the ITTF and the World Federation of Athletics Federations, to begin to take measures such as salary reductions and layoffs to ease the current financial constraints.
ITTF announced a salary reduction.
"We can't just stand by and watch the survival of individual organizations unsustainable," Coates said. Therefore, under the pressure of extra costs caused by the delay of the Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee decided to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to help individual international sports organizations and national or regional Olympic Committees overcome the difficulties.
No matter what kind of agreement the IOC has reached with the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee and the Japanese government, it is obviously not just athletes who are suffering from the cycle changes.
Several issues were settled during the competition
On March 30, Beijing time, the International Olympic Committee officially announced that the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be postponed to July 23 to August 8, 2021, and the thorny problems facing world sports have finally been resolved. What followed was a series of problems associated with the Tokyo Olympic Games schedule, athlete qualifications, and qualifying events.
In the joint video conference held by the International Olympic Committee Coordinating Committee and the relevant person in charge of the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee, the two parties reached agreement on the Tokyo Olympic venues and schedule for a year extension due to the new coronary pneumonia epidemic. It is best to follow the original plan, and formally negotiate with the owners of the venue and seek assistance.
The Chinese women's football team is still chasing the qualifications for the Tokyo Olympics. China News Agency reporter Tao Shelan
On April 8th, Beijing time, the International Olympic Committee released the principles of the newly revised Olympic qualification system on its official website. Questions about qualifications, participation quotas and ages that are of concern to the outside world have been answered: The deadline for the Tokyo Olympic Qualifications is June 29, 2021; the quotas for the competitions already issued are still valid; the age restriction for competitions can be relaxed appropriately.
The Tokyo Olympics plans to issue about 11,000 seats for the Olympic Games. At present, 57% of the participating places have been determined, and about 5,000 quotas have not been issued.
The International Olympic Committee encourages the International Single Sports Federation to adopt a quota allocation method and approach similar to the previous one. For projects that rely on world rankings to determine eligibility, the International Sports Federation has the right to determine new ranking deadlines and promotion methods.
IAAF announces suspension of Olympic qualifying
Faced with the new situation and new requirements, the International Single Sports Federation and the International Olympic Committee keep pace.
On the same day that the International Olympic Committee promulgated the new guidelines, the IAAF announced that the Tokyo Olympics track and field event qualification will resume on December 1 and continue to the 2021 new qualification deadline set by the International Olympic Committee The FIFA and the International Wrestling Federation have also made corresponding adjustments in accordance with the principles of the newly practiced qualification system.
Uncertainty of rights and interests
As early as June 2019, Coates publicly stated that this year's event has received US $ 3.1 billion in local business sponsorship income. This data is almost three times the London Olympics and twice the recent two men's World Cup. A record high. However, the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics has brought uncertainty to the “cashing out” of advertising effectiveness of sponsors and suppliers.
At the beginning of the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics, IOC President Bach stated that the decision to postpone the event was supported by all sponsors. But support is backed by support. According to the laws of the sports marketing cycle, the postponement of the Olympic Games will inevitably disrupt the layout and strategy of the sponsors, and the impact and losses brought about by them will ultimately be borne alone.
Some partners of the Tokyo Olympics
On April 3, the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee invited sponsor companies to participate in a briefing session. The Olympic Organizing Committee explained that the Olympic extension and the new schedule setting did not have time to listen to the opinions of the sponsors and seek understanding. Kyodo News quoted the relevant corporate sources as saying, "The real purpose of the briefing may be to request additional fees."
Under the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic, the operating conditions of all enterprises are affected. If it is necessary to consider reducing the operating costs of enterprises, the expenditure on Olympic sponsorship may be reviewed. However, Kyodo News said that for Japanese companies, if they refuse to sponsor the Olympics, they will also fall into an embarrassing situation: "It may cause the deterioration of the corporate image and the sponsors will be in a dilemma."
It is worth mentioning that in the planning of the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee, Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is expected to generate approximately 630 billion yen in revenue, of which nearly two-thirds come from sponsors. On one side is the further accumulation of hosting costs, and on the other side, the dominoes sponsored by the delay of the Tokyo Olympics, which is transferring pressure to every inch of the corner. (Finish)