phelps 6,770 Posted September 1, 2019 #1051 Share Posted September 1, 2019 after Pyeongchang's disaster, this Tokyo schedule is going to be by far the worst in the Olympic history among the "televised Games" (from 1960 on)... c'mon! not even in the world cup stages we have 2 shotgun shooting finals on the same day! Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian1010 7,470 Posted September 1, 2019 #1052 Share Posted September 1, 2019 Just now, phelps said: after Pyeongchang's disaster, this Tokyo schedule is going to be by far the worst in the Olympic history among the "televised Games" (from 1960 on)... c'mon! not even in the world cup stages we have 2 shotgun shooting finals on the same day! Schedule will be fine for those of us attending . I can only realistically see like 2 events a day anyways. The compact schedule has worked out well for my group. We can a lot of what we wanted to see Handball, Equestrian, Basketball (3x3), Canoe, Weightlifting “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,770 Posted September 1, 2019 #1053 Share Posted September 1, 2019 Just now, Olympian1010 said: Schedule will be fine for those of us attending . I can only realistically see like 2 events a day anyways. The compact schedule has worked out well for my group. We can a lot of what we wanted to see Handball, Equestrian, Basketball (3x3), Canoe, Weightlifting nice... at least there's someone who can appreciate it... Olympian1010 and heywoodu 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,540 Posted September 1, 2019 #1054 Share Posted September 1, 2019 Just now, phelps said: after Pyeongchang's disaster, this Tokyo schedule is going to be by far the worst in the Olympic history among the "televised Games" (from 1960 on)... c'mon! not even in the world cup stages we have 2 shotgun shooting finals on the same day! I can't wait for the 3 hours of nothing (except for maybe a qualifying here and there) followed by 2 hours filled with 16 finals! I love not being able to watch most of the things If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian1010 7,470 Posted September 1, 2019 #1055 Share Posted September 1, 2019 Just now, heywoodu said: I can't wait for the 3 hours of nothing (except for maybe a qualifying here and there) followed by 2 hours filled with 16 finals! I love not being able to watch most of the things That’s the Totallympics Media live blog exists “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,216 Posted September 11, 2019 #1056 Share Posted September 11, 2019 The president of NOC today officially send our aplication to the Tokyo Organizing committee via mail and by this officially confirmed our participation in the 2020 Summer Olympic Games and look, look who was there, during the ceremony, and had a speech, no one else than Rory Sabbatini also Takuya Haneda the most Slovakian of the Japanese Benolympique 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bestmen 2,555 Posted September 11, 2019 #1057 Share Posted September 11, 2019 (edited) this is the hall of Karate " the Nippon Budokan " Edited September 11, 2019 by bestmen Benolympique 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian1010 7,470 Posted September 11, 2019 #1058 Share Posted September 11, 2019 47 minutes ago, bestmen said: this is the hall of Karate " the Nippon Budokan " It will be the venue for Judo as well. I believe it’s generally been used mainly for national Sumo tournaments in the past. “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NearPup 2,156 Posted September 11, 2019 #1059 Share Posted September 11, 2019 1 hour ago, Olympian1010 said: It will be the venue for Judo as well. I believe it’s generally been used mainly for national Sumo tournaments in the past. Also the venue of the inaugural Olympic Judo tournament in 1964, which is what it was built for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,770 Posted September 11, 2019 #1060 Share Posted September 11, 2019 1 hour ago, Olympian1010 said: It will be the venue for Judo as well. I believe it’s generally been used mainly for national Sumo tournaments in the past. it's the home of Japanese Martial Arts (especially, Judo and Karate)... Sumo is not played there... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Budokan NearPup 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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