Tokyo Olympic Games 2020 : Diversity & Inclusion !

https://olympics.com/

The Tokyo 2020 officially opened on July 23, 2021 with the traditional Olympic Games Opening Ceremony seen by three billion people around the world.

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games started on 23 July 2021 and will end during Summer season in Europe and some other continents, next 08 August 2021.

“More than any other event (the Games) have the power to bring the world together; to inspire; to show what is possible,”

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, 

Director-General of the World Health Organization 

In the United States and other countries, the students would come back to school but we are not sure about in-person lessons due the difficult pandemic time. However students and teachers could follow on national television Tokyo 2020. They will be talking about their heroes, the athletes from different sports. 

Teachers are already preparing their in-person lessons or distance learning and they will include the Olympic Games and sport values into school curricula, for sure. They can't lose this wonderful experience! Such a great resource for different curricula. 

Games Vision are the most innovative in history. It brought positive reform to the world by building on three core concepts:

• "Striving for your personal best” (Achieving Personal Best), 

• “Accepting one another” (Unity in Diversity) and 

• “Passing on Legacy for the future” (Connecting to Tomorrow). 

Under the tagline, “Know Differences, Show Differences”, Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) is essential to achieving the Games Vision and delivering successful Games. As such, D&I is being incorporated into all the aspects of Games planning and operations.  

Tom Dailey

credits: Jean Catuffe/ Getty Images

via The Guardian/ Tokyo 2020

Tokyo 2020 embraced ‘Diversity’ by celebrating the differences of individuals, while ‘Inclusion’ saw people accepted and respected regardless of age, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs or intellectual or physical impairment.

• Mascot: Miraitowa & Olympic sports

Students could access to all sports here and followed all athletes and teams.

• Youngest and oldest athletes:

The Olympics may be thought mostly to be the preserve of the young - from 12 - the Syrian table tennis, Zaza Hend, 12 or the English skateboarder Sky Brown, 13. There are some sports where experience brings an advantage - to 66. The Australian equestrian Mary Hanna is 66 – the oldest competitor at Tokyo, her sixth Games.

Syria’s Hend Zaza, 12

credits:  Luisa González/Reuters

English Sky Brown, 13

Ezra Shaw/Getty Images/ EPA/Fazry Ismail

via New York Post

Australian Mary Hanna, 66

credits: Yohei Osada/AFLO/REX/Shutterstock

via The Guardian/ Tokyo 2020

So, The Olympics may be thought mostly to be the preserve of the young - from 12 Syria’s Hend Zaza to  - but there are some sports where experience brings an advantage - to 66. The Australian equestrian Mary Hanna is 66 – the oldest competitor at Tokyo 2020, her sixth Games.

• Olympic games : Some information:

The first edition of the modern Olympic Games was staged in Athens, Greece, in 1896, while the first winter edition was held in Chamonix, France, in 1924. 

Since 1994, the Olympic Games have alternated between a summer and winter edition every two years within the four-year period of each Olympiad.

The Olympic Truce was reintroduced at the modern games in 1994, and it remains an ideal of the Olympic movement, with a related UN resolution passed every two years before each Olympics. 

Tokyo 2020

credits: Reuters

More than half a century later, the many legacies of Tokyo 1964 are still being felt. Despite taking place in an unprecedented context of a pandemic, Tokyo 2020 aimed to make a similar impact on the lives of the Japanese public.

New technologies and digital innovation have enabled more sports fans than ever to watch, follow and engage with the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. Since the start of the Games, the Olympic digital platforms have had record breaking traffic – double the number of users during Rio 2016 on a daily basis.

Tokyo 2020

Sky Brown, GB, skateboarding, bronze medal

 credits: Getty/Ian MacNicol

Education:

Every four years, the Olympic Games create worldwide excitement as athletes from across the globe compete for a prestigious place on the podium. With stories of hard-work, determination, sacrifice, Olympians are great role models for students of any age to show that practice, practice, practice is the way to achieve their goals. 

From sports to geography, I picked some of the best Olympic-themed teaching resources to help you encourage both individual achievement and teamwork, while inspiring your students to strive for gold in the classroom. Wow! It will be amazing.

I am sure that a lot of students will want to talk about it. Japanese students are the luckiest because some of them are at the Olympic stadium with their parents watching live or participating as volunteers.

But there will be a big number all over the world that are watching live on television or on the Internet day by day, following their favorite athletes and sports. And the most curious will know a lot about OG sharing ideas in-person lessons or distance learning.

Teachers have been watching Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as well, and they are wondering how they might include the OG into the curriculum if they are teaching at this time of the year. Pandemic Covid-19 changed a lot time of school teaching as we all know.

As I wrote, I will share with educators some subjects that might interest them for now and/or next school season. Tokyo 2020 is a very good subject. Values in sport too. 

You will find on this post some resources that teachers can include into their lesson plans by Zoom or in-person.

Ideas & Resources for Teachers:

Here are couple of ideas and resources to evaluate and include into your school curriculum about Tokyo 2020.

Let's talk about some curricula:

• Sciences/Geography: The Olympic Flame & Japan as a country.
  

Civics & cross-curricular project: Values 

"Sport’s role in reducing conflict can be traced back to the creation of the Olympic Games."

Of course, teachers can't lose this splendid event to talk about values and beliefs: bravery, confidence, courage, self-estime, effort, mental health, work, solidarity, fellowship, mutual support. 

Honesty, teamwork, respect, self-belief, passion and determination the six values  to achieve personal excellence.

Italian team performance enable the the Gold Medal. A beautiful example of team work, fellowship and mutual support.

Tokyo 2020 medals

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Saving the Planet : recycling & reuse

To produce the Olympic medals, The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) conducted the “Tokyo 2020 Medal Project” to collect small electronic devices such as used mobile phones from all over Japan. 

This project makes Tokyo 2020 the first in the history of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to involve citizens in the production of medals, and to manufacture the medals using recycled metals.

credits: Associated Press

via Forbes.com

Athletes checking into their rooms at the Tokyo Olympic Village discovered single mattress on a cardboard frame. Wow! The cardboard beds are very real. The beds were planned for the Tokyo Olympics as a recycling initiative, long before the spread of COVID-19. 

To address global greenhouse gas emission, Japan’s 2020 Olympic and Paralympic teams will wear official sportswear made from donated, recycled textiles.

https://olympics.com/

Nature: Victory bouquets:

The Olympic Games, Tokyo 2020 will be the first time since London 2012 that a host city will use victory bouquets, and they hold great significance too. The flowers used for the bouquets for Tokyo 2020 are grown mainly in areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011

Doodle Champion Island Games created by Tokyo

https://www.google.com/doodles/

Game: Google Doodle:

Google Doodle launched an anime-inspired game to mark the start of Tokyo Olympics 2020 which officially began July 23, 2021 and named it Doodle Champion Island Games. You can click here to play the game. 

Welcome to the Doodle Champion Island Games! Over tthe weeks, you could join calico (c)athlete Lucky as she explores Doodle Champion Island: a world filled with seven sport mini-games, legendary opponents, dozens of daring side quests, and a few new (and old ;)) friends.

Her ultimate goal? Defeat each sport Champion to collect all seven sacred scrolls—and complete extra hidden challenges across Champion Island in the process. Are you feline Lucky 😼? Click on Doodle, join one of the four color teams to contribute to the real-time global leaderboard, and let the games begin!

Video Game Music : 

Tokyo 2020 Olympics Opens BIG with Video Game Music! | Every Song Featured in the Ceremony. 

The Parade of Nations, a lengthy process in which all 11,260 athletes taking part in the Games enter an arena, has been accompanied by orchestral renditions of music from video games developed in Japan.

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony featured music from 14 games, including Final Fantasy, Monster Hunter, Dragon Quest, Sonic the Hedgehog, Chrono Trigger, and more!

Videos : One minute one sport:

Mental health: Simone Biles bronze medal

App: Stronger Together Challenge

Join the challenge and walk with the Olympic athletes: 

iTunes

Android

Other Resources:

Teachers can find other ideas and resources on my posts: Olympic Games London 2012 ; Olympic Games Rio 2014 and Pyneogchang 2018 to include into their in-person lessons or remote learning via Zoom and other platforms.

"The Olympic movement aspires to contribute to a peaceful future for humankind through the educational value of sport, in particular youth."

The Games brought together athletes from all parts of the world in the greatest of international sports events as a means to promote peace, mutual understanding and goodwill among nations and people.  

Tokyo 2020 Refugee Team

credits: © IOC / Greg Martin

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For the second time, the International Olympic Committee Refugee OlympicTeam will participate under the Olympic flag in the Olympic Games in Tokyo, acting as a powerful symbol of inclusion and our shared humanity.

The Refugee Olympic Team (EOR) is participating at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 with 29 athletes, from 11 countries, competing in 12 sports.

Tokyo 2020 Closing Ceremony

credits: Tokyo 2020

https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games have come to an end on 8 August 2021. Arigato Japan!

But it's not too early to look ahead to the next Olympic Summer Games: Paris 2024!

But before, we have to look to Paralympics 2020. The Olympic Games are over but the Paralympics are just around the corner for even more magical moments!

Aug 24 to Sep 5 2021. Don't miss it!

G-Souto

07.08.2021

updated: 08.08.2021

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