JAPAN
OLYMPIC COMMITTEE OF SERBIA, TOKYO 2020 EXPERIENCES
Excellence, Friendship And Respect Despite all the difficulties caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee, in cooperation with the IOC and the Japanese government, found brilliant solutions and successfully organised the Olympic Games, which hardly any other country could organised in the given circumstances. They showed that everything is possible in the spirit of Olympism and Olympic values
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he Olympic Committee of Serbia cares for the continuity of performance at the Olympic Games, which is confirmed by the fact that our athletes have not missed a single appearance at the Olympic Games from Stockholm in 1912 until the most recent games in Tokyo 38
in 2021, which only a small number of the largest and most successful countries can boast. The XXXII Summer Olympics were the fourth games held in Japan, after the 1964 Tokyo games (summer games), the 1972 Sapporo games (winter games) and the 1998 Nagano games (winter games).
In many ways, the Tokyo Games were unique. Tokyo was the first city to host the Summer Olympics twice. These are also the first games to be postponed for a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus and seen as a “beacon of hope for the whole world in difficult times”,
