Tokyo Olympics
Japan's pandemic competition
The Tokyo Olympics refers to the Olympic Games held in Tokyo, Japan—either the 1964 Summer Olympics, which marked Japan's postwar emergence on the world stage, or the 2020 Summer Olympics, postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and held without spectators.
Context usually makes clear which is meant: The Tokyo Olympics introduced new sports like skateboarding refers to 2020/2021.
- Team USANational athletic delegation
- gymnasticsAthletic discipline of controlled movement
- swimmingLocomotion through water
- skateboardingSport on wheeled plank
- postponementDelaying to later
Simone Biles · opening ceremony · torch relay · track and field · surfing · world record · closing ceremony · basketball · judo · sustainability initiatives · soccer · weightlifting · global audience · gold medal · medal count · national anthem · volunteer efforts · cycling
- 1964Beatles, Civil Rights Act, Ford Mustang, British Invasion, Gulf of Tonkin
- 2020sCOVID-19, pandemic, vaccine, lockdown, January 6th
- Heisei Japanbubble burst, deflation, economic stagnation, Fukushima, Shinzo Abe
- Modern JapanHiroshima, Nagasaki, Hirohito, economic miracle, bullet train
- Showa JapanHirohito, Emperor Hirohito, Imperial Japan, Tojo, Hiroshima
- JapanKyoto, Osaka, Mount Fuji, Hokkaido, Honshu
Tokyo OlympicsBeijing Olympics
Athletic competition hosted by China's capital
Paris Olympics · London Olympics · Athens Olympics · Moscow Olympics · Berlin Olympics