(Tokyo Olympics) Bach: Tokyo Olympics "unprecedented"
China News Service, Tokyo, August 8th. The Tokyo Olympic flame, which had been burning for 16 days, was slowly extinguished at the Tokyo New National Stadium on the 8th.
Regarding the Tokyo Olympics, which was postponed for one year due to the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Thomas Maher, President of the International Olympic Committee, said in his speech that the Tokyo Olympics is an unprecedented Olympic Games.
On August 8, the closing ceremony of the 32nd Summer Olympic Games was held in Tokyo, Japan.
The picture shows the scene of the closing ceremony.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Han Haidan
Bach said that athletes motivate everyone with the cohesion of sports.
The epidemic has brought many challenges, and the cohesion of sports has become more prominent. In difficult times, athletes from all over the world have given the world the most precious gift, and that is hope.
"The whole world has come together, sports has come to center stage, and billions of people around the world share this joyful and encouraging moment. This gives us hope and confidence in the future."
"This is an unprecedented Olympic Games." Bach emphasized that the Tokyo Olympics is an Olympic Games of hope, unity and peace.
He said that no one had organized a postponed Olympic Games before, and it was the unprecedented efforts of the International Olympic Committee and partners that made this Olympic Games possible.
"In the same Olympic family, we are so united," Bach thanked the Japanese Olympic Committee, Japanese governments at all levels, volunteers, national or regional Olympic committees, and individual international sports organizations, etc., for showing solidarity and support here. .
"We did this for the athletes, we were united and we did it."
Bach said that the sports achievements of the athletes in the past 16 days are astonishing. Their excellence, joy, and tears have created the vitality of the Olympic Games.
Finally, Bach appealed in French that young people from all over the world would meet again in Paris three years later.
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