2023 National Athletic Meet 2024 National Sports Festival Saga Approved in Kagoshima October 8 23:40
The Japan Sports Association has approved the holding of the National Athletic Meet = National Sports Festival in Kagoshima in 2023 and the 2024 tournament, which will be renamed the National Sports Festival, in Saga Prefecture.
The Japan Sports Association held an extraordinary board meeting in Tokyo on the afternoon of the 8th, and last month about the national polity in Kagoshima, which abandoned the event due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, with the Sports Agency and the local Kagoshima prefecture. Approved the proposal to be held in 2023, which was decided in the discussions of.
We also approved the 2024 tournament, which will change its name from the National Athletic Meet to the National Sports Festival, in Saga Prefecture.
Governor Shioda of Kagoshima Prefecture said, "The people of the prefecture were very disappointed that this event was not held, but they shared this pain all over Japan and made very difficult adjustments. It was postponed by one year. I would like to thank each prefecture that has become very grateful. "
In addition, Governor Yamaguchi of Saga Prefecture said, "This will be the first national sports festival, but I was impressed by connecting the power of sports to many people as if the national polity strongly supported the postwar reconstruction with the power of physical education. I want to make it a tournament that I can call, "he said with enthusiasm for four years.