Category: Organization
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FINA celebrations in Lausanne | #FINA110
FINA is celebrating its 110th Birthday! The celebrations in Lausanne went along with the inauguration of the FINA headquarter. IOC president Thomas Bach also joined the party to and brought a very special prize. Enjoy some impressions of the event and the new headquarter office!
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Safe Sport – Stand Together
USA Swimming encourages all to become a champion of Safe Sport. For tools, resources, or to report go to usaswimming.org/protect
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Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Japan PM Shinzo Abe orders daylight saving time study
Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe has instructed the country’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party to conduct a study into the introduction of daylight saving time for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The Games are scheduled for July and August – Tokyo’s hottest and most humid months – and there are concerns over athlete safety during…
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Tokyo 2020 to up security with facial recognition system
Tokyo 2020 will be the first Olympics to use facial recognition technology to increase security around all venues, the organizers announced on Tuesday. Games organizers have linked up with Japanese telecommunications and information technology giant NEC to develop the first system of this kind to be implemented at an Olympics. Read Reuters
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Mobile Mosque launches as Japan prepares for 2020 Olympics
For Muslims, when participating in the Olympics or other sporting events, it will be easier for them to find a place to worship.
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Japan discusses time change at Tokyo Olympics for extreme heat
Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said turning the clocks forward one or two hours during the Olympics “may be one solution†to combat potential heat-wave temperatures in two years, according to Japanese reports. Yoshiro Mori, president of the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee, said he and Abe discussed the possibility Friday, according to Kyodo News. “We…
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The athletes from nowhere: Dispatches from the Faroe Islands, a proud sporting nation the Olympics won’t acknowledge
Ah, the hard memories We competed at the 2015 European Games in Baku,†Joensen remembers. “And we were not allowed to use the Faroe flag. Instead we had to compete as LEN (Ligue Européenne de Natation) and were given tee-shirts with no flag, just plain blue with our name. And when we were introduced our…
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Is this Tokyo 2020 Olympics biggest mistake?
In 2 years, the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games will take place and — the entire city is going to fry! That’s right — the 1964 Summer Games were held in October to avoid the heat of Japanese summer and typhoon season. Did the committee make a mistake scheduling the 2020 Games in the middle of…
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Olympics – Tokyo 2020 Games venues hit by construction delays: organizers
Construction delays at two key Olympic venues could force Tokyo Games organizers into a reshuffle of test event schedules, the organizing committee said. The Olympics Aquatics Center, which will host swimming and diving events as well as the Sea Forest Waterway, venue for the rowing and canoeing events in 2020, were two months behind schedule,…