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What two countries could host the 2022 Olympics?
Beijing and Kazakhstan
What is the importance of Scot Stafford in relations to Damian WARNER?
Scott Stafford calls Gar Leyshon and tells him there's and old hockey arena Farquharson that DW can repurpose and use
Created long jump pit but needed a lot of sand
Brought hurdles from Western
Building was only 52 meters so could not run 100 meters
Could really only work on his start and for hurdles he could only jump 3 hurdles before the crash pad
Massive limitations for his training, but it was better than nothing
As Covid 19 numbers and cases kept rising, Tokyo and and IOC officials held a meeting to discuss what was next for the 2020 Olympics? What was their plan?
The overall message was the Olympics were a go, full-speed ahead
In January 2020, Lausanne Switzerland hosted the Winter Youth Olympic Games. How many athletes and countries attended this event and why was it important?
1800 athletes from 79 countries descended from Lausanne
Has become a good testing ground for future Olympians
Who is Shinzo Abe?
Prime Minister, Japan (resigned due to health issues in 2020, succeeded by Yoshihide Suga, and now, Fumio Kishida- Abe was assassinated in July, 2022. The Bach/Abe friendship was central to Tokyo’s 2020’s success
Abe was not president during the Olympics
Who is Damian Warner?
is a Canadian track and field athlete specializing in decathlon. He is the 2020 Olympic champion and a four-time World medallist (silver in 2015 and 2023, bronze in 2013 and 2019
What is the Diamond Princess and what is its significance?
The Diamond Princess sailed out of Tokyo's harbour with 2666 passengers and 1045 crew members on January 20th. When it returned on February 3rd, there were nine cases aboard the ship. It sat in quarantine for two weeks. The case count topped out at 712
Picked up someone in Hong Kong who happened to have Coronavirus
They signaled to Japan that a number of passengers were now sick
What record did Damian WARNER beat at the Olympics? He was the 4th person to ever do so?
he had 9018 points, and is the 4th person ever to beat 9000 points and broke the Olympic Records
True or False, only 63% of athletes get only one shot at participating in the Olympics?
False, 70%
True or False - A POSTPONEMENT REQUIRES THE AGREEMENT OF THE IOC AND THE HOST CITY.
True
Why was Japan "banking" on the Olympics?
Japan needed the money from the olympics due to the economic pressure from the Typhoon, so they were banking on the Olympics to save them
Politicians upped the countries sales tax to deal with nations debt after. a trade war with China dn the Typhoon then had a damage tab of 15 million
The IOC alone ______cancel the games at any given point but the host city _______cancel the games
CAN, CANNOT
Why does the IOC no longer use the 7 year in advance bidding system for cities to host the Olympics?
if a city wants a future olympic games and host it well, with a proven plan, sponsorships, etc, if they can sell the IOC on that they will get to host and there will be no competition
By getting rid of the 7 year system there is no more competition and voting
True or False, did spectators attend the oLYMPICS GAMES?
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How can the IOC tap into the best medical advice?
IOC establishes “Here We Go” task force (Dak’s task force)
Tokyo 2020 establishes “New Launch” task force
Good working relationship between the 2 task forces despite having to meet online or remotely
What is Gotiz? How many times did Damian win it and why was it importamt for him to succeed there?
Biggest decathlon meet in the world
DW is a legend in Austria and had won it either 6 or 7 times
His performance there showed him that he does have what it takes to go to the Olympics and now he can start to train much more properly
On March 11, the WHO declared COVID 19 a global pandemic cancelling world’s sports calendar follows, including the NBA and NHL suspending their seasons, and the closure of MLB’s spring training camps. What/why did Japan ultimately decide to do in regards of the Olympics?
The IOC and Tokyo 2020 issued a joint announcement to postpone the Games on March 24th.
A report from WHO around March 17th which made them think that COVID was going to be a catastrophe in Africa and that no athletes from Africa would be able to come and Canada had came out and said they would not send any athletes to JAPAN
How did the Olympics prove everyone wrong in regards of the media portraying it as a super spreader event?
Athletes and coaches were not permitted to leave the airport upon arrival without a negative test. They were tested each day of the stay in Japan
The playbook and mitigation strategies worked and no new strains of covid 19 were found and nobody took AY 29 strains back to their home countries
People were not mandated to be vaccinated, 85% of people who lived there during the Olympics and Paralympics opted to be vaccinated
Qualifying for the Games still needed to occur prior to the Games
The doping control area at the Olympics has to meet strict standards
New Launch task force COVID mitigation strategy
Ticket issues
What was Damian Warners Dilemma?
When Covid hit, he had no facility to train because Western University was shut down
Had no place to train, drove 40 km to strathroy and trained there because he wasn't seen from the road, and nobody would cause issues
Trained there from March to November
No place to train from November 2020 to March 2021, can't train outside and can't train inside
How should TOP sponsor agreements be re-negotiated as some sponsors were due to depart the program in 2020 (TOP IX) , and other in 2021 (TOP X) (refers to the cycle of the 4 year period which covers winter and summer games in TOP)
The sponsors who were supposed to be in 2020, they wanted to maintain that for 2021. However, they had no rights since it was supposed to be 2020
Had to renegotiate all of those TOP deals mostly Timo Lumme and his team who had this task along with the television deals
They were thinking that they were going to have a much smaller onsite presence of employees from all of these television companies. Therefore, most of the coverage will have to be from their home countries rather than being in Tokyo in person
Olympic Broadcasting Services had to increase the number of feeds so that televisions networks could lock into the different feeds and form unique programming for people in their own country
Why are Damian Warner's high school coaches important (Gar Leyshon and Dennis Nielson)
They started a track team because they thought so highly of DW (Gar and Dennis)
Gar realized Damian was an all around athlete and thought decathlon would be a great fit for him
Gar and Dennis convinced him to give decathlon a shot
What were the three ways Christopher Dubu summarized the nature of the challenge of Tokyo 2021?
1) Resecure Infrastructure (hotels, venues, Olympic Village International Broadcasting and Media Centre due to be handed back to its owners who used the facility as a trade and convention center, 43 contracts in total)
2) Wrap the games in a covid-19 framework not knowing if a vaccine would be available or spectators would be present. This also entailed re-envisioning the ticketing program
3) Train and deliver, meaning the need to develop and then educate athletes, coaches and volunteers on necessary protocols
IOC had to develop protocols and educate everyone on how to behave and conduct themselves in the Tokyo Olympic environment to prevent the spread of COVID
They were staged, did not become a superspreader, and the athletes performed well, and everyone who like to watch sports found an escape in watching the Games for 2 weeks
Television ratings were off globally, however the number of people watching the games on their phones was a record high via streaming or on the app
As we know both Paris and LA were interested in hosting the 2024 Summer Olympic Games and if they followed the normal approach of the bidding process they would have voted and determined a winner, what did Thomas Bach suggest to the IOC to avoid the whole bidding process?
He quietly suggested that one host in 2024 and another in 2028 to avoid the whole bidding process
The plan that was then voted on was Paris 2024 and LA 2028, they provided LA with some money due to the delay.
By doing so he locked down Paris 2024 and LA 2028 and it added medium term security to the IOC