It's official now : https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-to-start-on-july-23-kyodo-says-idUSKBN21H186 Japan, IOC agree for next year's Olympic Games to start on July 23, Kyodo says TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese organizers and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided on Monday that the Tokyo Olympic Games would start on July 23, 2021 and run until Aug. 8, Kyodo news reported. The Games were postponed last week due to the deepening coronavirus outbreak. _______
ugh, so just no for lcw in your ideal case football's wc is huge, cost too much so they can't host it more often while badminton wc is small. For me 3 time every 4 years is perfect. should all england be held 2 years once?
New Dates Announced for Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics Monday, March 30, 2020 TEXT BY BWF STAFF https://olympics.bwfbadminton.com/n...nced-for-tokyo-2020-olympics-and-paralympics/ The International Olympic Committee (IOC), International Paralympic Committee (IPC), Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee (TOCOG) and Tokyo Metropolitan Government today announced new dates for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Games of the XXXII Olympiad will now be held 23 July to 8 August 2021 with the Paralympic Games to follow from 24 August until 5 September 2021. IOC’s statement read: “These new dates give the health authorities and all involved in the organisation of the Games the maximum time to deal with the constantly changing landscape and the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. “The new dates, exactly one year after those originally planned for 2020, have the added benefit that any disruption the postponement will cause to the international sports calendar can be kept to a minimum.” IOC President Thomas Bach added: “I am confident that we can master this unprecedented challenge. Humankind currently finds itself in a dark tunnel. These Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 can be a light at the end of this tunnel.” President of the IPC Andrew Parsons said it was fantastic that new dates could be found so quickly “The new dates provide certainty for the athletes, reassurance for the stakeholders and something to look forward to for the whole world. When the Paralympic Games do take place in Tokyo next year, they will be an extra-special,” he said. BWF is aware of the need to reschedule the World Championships 2021 normally staged in August with suitable alternatives being discussed with hosts Spain. _____ *What the alternative time slot for BWF World Championships 2021? October, November??
it needs to be at least 9 months away from the olympics for it to feel like it has any meaning. if you want the athletes to be at their best for a wc they need time to rest, recover and work towards peaking again through training and tournament play. by playing huelva, spain 2021 wc in nov/dec means tokyo wc 2022 in right around the corner in august 2022. do they really want to cram the 3 majors (2021 og, huelva 2021 wc, tokyo 2022 wc) in a 12 month time span? that would be idiotic. then again this is bwf we're talking about. my suggestion: push huelva, spain wc to august 2022, and tokyo wc from 2022 to 2023, copenhagen 2023 to 2025, paris 2024 olympics, and move paris 2025 wc to 2026. this way paris doesn't get back to back og/wc. yes, london got back to back in 2011/2012 but wembley 2011 was a test run for 2012 og, whereas paris wc is currently scheduled to follow og the very next year. the already scheduled organizers through 2025 wc should accept 2020 as a write off and a cause for requiring flexibility. from knowing all of the above organizers i don't see any of them objecting. if someone wants to back out they can. now is also the time for bwf to get rid of their idiotic 'top committed player' rule. they can use c-19 as an excuse to save face, ha! the existence of c-19 will wreak havoc on travel restrictions in the future since it will be present for years to come. this may cause individual countries to implement their own travel restrictions based on their own needs at any time, for incoming & outgoing passengers.
Olympics in 2021. Invitation for lcw to come back if he is well. There is a good reason for the extension. If he can fight covid, he can fight cancer. Goto his facebook and support my message to him now. Thanks.
If too old. Tell federer or m jordan. https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...er-survivor-wins-sailing-gold-at-54/88874246/
The World Rankings on Tournament Software, which were placed at "Week 13", and would have normally advanced to "Week 14" today, have, instead, been moved back to "Week 12"! It is possible that the BWF has proceeded to 'freeze" the players' points. The Race to Tokyo ranking page, incidentally, has advanced to "Week 14".
BWF Freezes Rankings 31 March, 2020 TEXT BY BWF STAFF https://bwfbadminton.com/news-single/2020/03/31/bwf-freezes-rankings/ The Badminton World Federation (BWF) can announce it will freeze World Rankings and World Junior Rankings until further notice. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the badminton community has experienced an unprecedented suspension to international tournaments from mid-march 2020 to the end of April 2020. At present, it is difficult to predict when the next international tournament will take place with further tournaments also expected to be suspended in May and June. The freezing of rankings will be backdated to Week 12, which is the week following the last international tournament that was played – the YONEX All England Open 2020. The ranking lists issued on 17 March 2020 will serve as a basis for entry and seeding into the next international tournaments – although it is difficult to say at this stage when this may be. BWF will provide more information in due course regarding the process as to how the rankings will eventually be ‘unfrozen’ following the commencement of the international circuit. However, it is difficult to outline the exact procedure until we have an exact overview of what the international calendar will look like once play resumes and suspended tournaments have been rescheduled. We are seeking to define a solution to unfreeze the rankings in a staggered way to avoid any extreme drop off of points from previous tournaments causing an extreme impact on the ranking structure. BWF is liaising closely with the Athletes’ Commission on the unfortunate impacts of the COVID-19 situation upon players. The Athletes’ Commission fully supports the freezing of the BWF World Ranking lists from Week 12, and agrees that the exact procedure for unfreezing the rankings will need to be determined based on more exact tournament calendar information presently under review. BWF hopes to communicate more information on rescheduled tournaments in the coming weeks, which will also provide more clarity on the unfreezing of rankings once it is deemed safe to resume tournaments. Following yesterday’s announcement to reschedule the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games to 23 July to 8 August 2021, BWF will now also initiate a review process to confirm any impacts on the Olympic qualification system. Please note that the consequences of freezing the World Rankings will not apply to the Olympic qualification system. This review process is expected to take several weeks upon which BWF will make a further announcement once all circumstances have been carefully considered. **Note: Backdated frozen rankings from 17 March will be in place from today (31 March 2020) until the freeze ends.
A hint that we'll see more suspended tournaments in June. The freezing ranking point most likely won't expired simultaneously when tournament resumed.
No World Championships in Olympic Year, because Olympic Games is regarded as pinnacle of all athletes achievement.
BWF in a dilemma Thursday, 02 Apr 2020 By TAN MING WAI https://www.thestar.com.my/sport/badminton/2020/04/02/bwf-in-a-dilemma PETALING JAYA: The Badminton World Federation (BWF) are having too much on their plate at the moment, no thanks to the large-scale disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The postponement of the Tokyo Olympics to July 23-Aug 8 has left the governing body with a big headache as they now need to also reschedule the World Championships, which traditionally takes place in August. The host city for the 26th edition next year is Huelva, Spain. BWF confirmed last Monday that they are currently in discussions with the organisers to seek alternative dates. However, the big question is: will the Olympics and World Championships be held in the same year for the first time ever? The two biggest individual events have never clashed since badminton first made it into the Olympic Games programme in Barcelona 1992. It isn’t just about finding suitable replacement dates. BWF also need to come up with a viable qualification mechanism for the World Championships, which are normally being contested over a one-year period. Had the Covid-19 not wreaked havoc on the calendar, the 52-week qualifying cycle for the Huelva meet could have commenced in early May and concluded at the end of April 2021. But it remains unknown when the BWF international circuit can be resumed. ===================================================== While it is highly unlikely that BWF will be able to complete a one-year qualification process, they could settle for a shorter span. Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) secretary Datuk Kenny Goh reckons that it is not ideal to hold the World Championships in the same year as the Olympics. “I’m not sure what’s BWF’s plan, but I don’t foresee having so many major events in one year, ” said Kenny. “If BWF still want to have the World Championships, that will mean three major events next year – the Olympics, world meet and Sudirman Cup. “Let’s not forget that the World Tour Finals is also considered as a major event by BWF, so that would make four. That’s just too many.” “I think we should just scrap the World Championships as it is held annually. ================================= *Will 26th World Championships be recheduled in 2022?
“I think we should just scrap the World Championships as it is held annually." It would be unfair for all players. The ranking table has frozen so that the number 1 players has lost their records (most weeks at number 1). Now, if WC cannot hold, some players will lost gold medals.
It can be easily adjusted with new measures that points from WC2019 (if a player has point from the WC) kept being counted up until Olympics. After that, BAU
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/03/asia/tokyo-coronavirus-japan-hnk-intl/index.html Only 40k COVID-19 tests done out of a population of 125M in all of Japan?! I had a feeling that Japan didn't want to know their actual infection rate leading up to the OG. Now there's concerns that they may be the next New York. Sent from my SM-G988W using Tapatalk
IOC confirm revised qualification deadline for Tokyo 2020 Olympics https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1092784/ioc-confirm-qualification-deadline-tokyo By Liam Morgan Friday, 3 April 2020 The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has revised the qualification deadline for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after the Games were postponed until 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In its qualification system principles, updated following confirmation of the new dates for the Games and a copy of which has been seen by insidethegames, the IOC said the qualification period would end on June 29, 2021. The date is exactly a week before the final entry deadline of July 5, 18 days before the Olympics are due to open on July 23. In a separate letter to National Olympic Committees, the IOC said it hoped to finalise the adapted qualification system later this month. The IOC has also told International Federations to use their original qualification systems where possible after numerous events had been cancelled or postponed in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. "This principle encourages IFs to follow a like-for-like approach by replacing those lost opportunities that were allocating quotas with the same number of events," the IOC added. Sports which use world rankings to determine their Olympic qualifiers - including badminton, weightlifting and judo - are facing a tougher challenge compared with the other federations. The IOC said Federations should "retain full discretion to define the new ranking deadline and pathway", but warned a balance "needs to be found between protecting those athletes who were close to qualifying based on the previous 2020 deadlines, while also ensuring the participation of the best athletes at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 by allowing the top performers of the 2021 season to qualify". Confirmation of the new deadline and further clarification on the qualification process is set to alleviate uncertainty among athletes following the decision to delay the Games by a year. ==================================================
