Mie Prefecture Next year's National Athletic Meet Opening Ceremony Scale Reduction Athletes Participate Online at 5:13 on October 14
Regarding the National Athletic Meet, which will be held in Mie Prefecture next fall, Mie Prefecture will significantly reduce the size of the opening ceremony attendees and venues in order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, while the participants will be online. It turned out that we have established a policy to establish a mechanism to participate in the opening ceremony.
Regarding the "Mie and Kowaka National Athletic Meet" to be held in Mie Prefecture from September 25th to October 5th next year, Governor Suzuki of Mie Prefecture has announced that he will review the management method of the tournament to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. doing.
Regarding this, Mie Prefecture has decided to significantly reduce the scale of the opening and closing ceremonies where many people gather, according to interviews with related parties.
Of these, the opening ceremony will reduce the number of athletes from 47 prefectures from the initial 13,000 to about 800, which was initially expected to be about 3,000. It is a policy.
Along with this, the venue for the opening ceremony will be changed from the athletics stadium in Ise City to the Mie Center for the Arts in Tsu City, and the attendees will be distributed to multiple halls to reduce the risk of infection spread. I will.
On the other hand, Mie Prefecture intends to connect the venue of the opening ceremony and various places online, establish a mechanism that allows participants to participate in the ceremony remotely, prevent the spread of infection, and hold a national sports competition at the same time.
Governor Suzuki will announce this policy at the National Athletic Meet executive committee meeting on the afternoon of the 14th.
On the other hand, it has been decided that the National Athletic Meet in Kagoshima, which abandoned this event due to the influence of the new coronavirus, will be held in 2023.