{"id":794955,"date":"2019-04-18T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/fans-athletes-volunteers-will-be-up-early-at-tokyo-games\/"},"modified":"2019-04-18T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T00:48:00","slug":"fans-athletes-volunteers-will-be-up-early-at-tokyo-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/fans-athletes-volunteers-will-be-up-early-at-tokyo-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans, athletes, volunteers will be up early at Tokyo Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery\" readability=\"6.8104166666667\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-364631-947\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Olympics_Tokyo_Event_Schedule_20152-cb3ae-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Olympics_Tokyo_Event_Schedule_20152-cb3ae.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Koji Sasahara \/ AP | AP | Tokyo 2020 Sports Director Koji Murofushi speaks during a press conference to unveil detailed Olympic competition schedule in Tokyo on Tuesday. For fans, athletes, and volunteers in Japan, next year\u2019s Olympics in Tokyo could become known as the get-up-early games. Organizers announced Tuesday that - hoping to beat summer heat in the Japanese capital - the men\u2019s 50-meter race walk final will begin at 5:30 a.m. The men\u2019s and women\u2019s marathon final will start at 6 a.m.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"9\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Olympics_Tokyo_Event_Schedule_20152-cb3ae.jpg\" alt=\"Tokyo 2020 Sports Director Koji Murofushi speaks during a press conference to unveil detailed Olympic competition schedule in Tokyo on Tuesday. For fans, athletes, and volunteers in Japan, next year\u2019s Olympics in Tokyo could become known as the get-up-early games. Organizers announced Tuesday that - hoping to beat summer heat in the Japanese capital - the men\u2019s 50-meter race walk final will begin at 5:30 a.m. The men\u2019s and women\u2019s marathon final will start at 6 a.m.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"13\">\n<p><strong>Tokyo 2020 Sports Director Koji Murofushi speaks during a press conference to unveil detailed Olympic competition schedule in Tokyo on Tuesday. For fans, athletes, and volunteers in Japan, next year\u2019s Olympics in Tokyo could become known as the get-up-early games. Organizers announced Tuesday that &#8211; hoping to beat summer heat in the Japanese capital &#8211; the men\u2019s 50-meter race walk final will begin at 5:30 a.m. The men\u2019s and women\u2019s marathon final will start at 6 a.m.<\/strong><br \/>Koji Sasahara \/ AP | AP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Olympics_Tokyo_Event_Schedule_20152-cb3ae-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Olympics_Tokyo_Event_Schedule_20152-cb3ae-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Koji Sasahara \/ AP | AP | From left, Men's Judo Japan national team head coach Kosei Inoue, Women's Softball Japan national team head coach Reika Utsugi and Tokyo 2020 Sports Director Koji Murofushi pose for a photo after a press conference to unveil detailed Olympic competition schedule in Tokyo on Tuesday. For fans, athletes, and volunteers in Japan, next year\u2019s Olympics in Tokyo could become known as the get-up-early games.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"10\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/04\/Olympics_Tokyo_Event_Schedule_20152-cb3ae-1.jpg\" alt=\"From left, Men's Judo Japan national team head coach Kosei Inoue, Women's Softball Japan national team head coach Reika Utsugi and Tokyo 2020 Sports Director Koji Murofushi pose for a photo after a press conference to unveil detailed Olympic competition schedule in Tokyo on Tuesday. For fans, athletes, and volunteers in Japan, next year\u2019s Olympics in Tokyo could become known as the get-up-early games.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"15\">\n<p><strong>From left, Men&#8217;s Judo Japan national team head coach Kosei Inoue, Women&#8217;s Softball Japan national team head coach Reika Utsugi and Tokyo 2020 Sports Director Koji Murofushi pose for a photo after a press conference to unveil detailed Olympic competition schedule in Tokyo on Tuesday. For fans, athletes, and volunteers in Japan, next year\u2019s Olympics in Tokyo could become known as the get-up-early games.<\/strong><br \/>Koji Sasahara \/ AP | AP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/fans-athletes-volunteers-will-be-up-early-at-tokyo-games\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/fans-athletes-volunteers-will-be-up-early-at-tokyo-games\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">TOKYO \u2014 For fans, athletes, and volunteers, next year\u2019s Tokyo Olympics could become known as the get-up-early games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Hoping to beat the summer heat in the Japanese capital, organizers said Tuesday they will start the men\u2019s 50-kilometer race walk final at 5:30 a.m. The men\u2019s and women\u2019s marathon finals go at 6 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Marathon swimming will kick off at 7 a.m., and the men\u2019s and women\u2019s triathlon start at 7:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Even women\u2019s softball has some games scheduled for 9 a.m. No men\u2019s baseball games will start before noon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201c9 a.m. is early, that\u2019s my impression,\u201d said Reika Utsugi, the head coach of Japan\u2019s women softball team, speaking through an interpreter. \u201cBut we will have one year for the preparation. Softball cannot decide the times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Softball and baseball were dropped after the 2008 Olympics, and are appearing because of the sports\u2019 popularity in Japan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The 1964 Tokyo Olympics were held in the fall and did not face heat problems. But modern Olympics can no longer be held in that timeframe, needing to avoid Europe\u2019s crowded soccer schedule, and year-round scheduling of the big four sports in the United States \u2014 football, baseball, basketball and hockey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Koji Murofushi, the sports director of the Tokyo Games and a Japanese Olympic gold medalist, said organizers had consulted about the schedule with the International Olympic Committee, the governing bodies of the sports, and athletes and medical experts. He said athletes can adapt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWhen we look at the Olympic games as a whole, of course we need to consider the global audience and adjust and control the overall schedule,\u201d Murofushi said, speaking through an interpreter. \u201cAthletes, when they know the schedule in advance, can make an adjustment to prepare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As previously announced, the swimming finals will begin at 10:30 a.m. The swim schedule has nothing to do with the heat and will follow the pattern of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The morning schedule in Asia allows North American television to telecast the finals live in prime time in the evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">American broadcaster NBC in 2011 agreed to pay the IOC $4.38 billion for TV rights through the 2020 Games. It later agreed to an extension through the 2032 Olympics, paying the IOC an added $7.75 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Organizers say the first gold medal event will be the women\u2019s 10-meter air rifle, which will take place on July 25 \u2014 the day after the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Organizers have labeled Aug. 8 \u2014 the day before the closing ceremony \u2014 as \u201cSuper Saturday\u201d with about 30 finals, the most of any single day. Finals will include men\u2019s basketball, men\u2019s soccer and men\u2019s baseball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The most difficult event to schedule might be surfing, which was added to the Tokyo Olympics. Organizers have blocked out eight days for the event, hoping surf\u2019s up for at least four of them. It\u2019s a four-day event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThe competition schedule is subjected to change depending on the wave conditions,\u201d organizers said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/fans-athletes-volunteers-will-be-up-early-at-tokyo-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo 2020 Sports Director Koji Murofushi speaks during a press conference to unveil detailed Olympic competition schedule in Tokyo on Tuesday. For fans, athletes, and volunteers in Japan, next year\u2019s Olympics in Tokyo could become known as the get-up-early games. 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