Tokyo 2021 – summer olympic games
The Olympic motto Citius, Altius, Fortius – Latin for Faster, Higher, Stronger
The symbol of the Olympic Games is composed of five interlocking rings, coloured blue, yellow, black, green, and red on a white field. This was originally designed in 1912 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin
On 30 March 2020, the IOC and TOCOG announced they had reached an agreement on the new dates for the 2020 Summer Olympics, which would begin on 23 July 2021 with the Opening Ceremony, and with the Closing Ceremony to take place on 8 August 2021
The Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games will feature a record 33 competitions and 339 events held across 42 competition venues. The International Olympic Committee IOC agreed to add five new sports:
baseball & softball
karate
skateboard
climbing
surfing
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TOKYO OLYMPIAD
1965 – 170 minutes – Color – Japan
Specially commissioned by the Japanese government in order to present a new, post-World War II image of Japan to the world, this epic was directed by Kon Ichikawa and is considered a milestone in documentary filmmaking. Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad ranks among the greatest documents of sport ever committed to film. Utilizing glorious widescreen cinematography, Ichikawa examines the beauty and rich drama on display at the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo, creating a catalogue of extraordinary observations that range from the expansive to the intimate. The glory, despair, passion, and suffering of Olympic competition are rendered with lyricism and technical mastery, culminating in an inspiring testament to the beauty of the human body and the strength of the human spirit. 104 cameras, a few hundred crew
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