When do the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games start: opening ceremony day, time and TV
Everything is ready for the start of Tokyo 2020.
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We enter an Olympic week. After more than a year of waiting, Tokyo 2020 it’s here. The Tokyo Olympic Stadium will host the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games . We tell you all the details.
Tokyo Opening Ceremony 2020: place, date and time
The evening will start at 8: 00 pm, local time, next Friday 23 July.
The time difference between Japan and Eastern Time is 13 hours. Therefore, the opening ceremony will begin at 7: 00 am for the official time zone covering the eastern coast of North America and the west coast of South America.
The event will conclude three hours later, after the classic Olympic return of all the athletes together with their delegations.
“ At the Opening Ceremony, we aspire to reaffirm the role of sport and the value of the Olympic Games to express our gratitude and admiration of all the efforts we have made together in the past year, and also to bring hope for the future. We hope they will be an experience that transmits how we all have the ability to celebrate differences, empathize and live together, with compassion for each other “, reads a statement published on the official website of the Olympic Games .
In the United States, the Tokyo Olympics 2020 will be available on numerous NBC platforms in English , and by Telemundo in Spanish.
The rest of the platforms on which the Olympic Games can be enjoyed. They are: CNBC, Golf Channel, NBC Olympics, NBC Sports Network, USA and Peacock – NBC streaming -.
MARCA Claro acquired the rights to broadcast all the events of the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020 . On his YouTube channel will enable numerous channels so that people can choose which event they want to see.
It will also be possible to tune the transmission through its website. The streaming will be free and will be available for most of the American continent: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela.
And in Mexico: Televisa and TV Azteca will broadcast some of the competitions, but the coverage of the Olympic Games will not be complete . It will be a partial coverage of certain events that said television stations agreed.
Tokyo 2020 starts before the opening ceremony
Although the official opening ceremony will take place this Friday 23, the action in Japan will start two days earlier: Wednesday 21 of July. Soccer and softball will be the disciplines that will begin before the aforementioned act.
Day 1: women’s soccer and softball.
Day 2: men’s soccer and softball.
The aforementioned events will begin their group stage / free-for-all round. No medal will be awarded until Saturday 24 of July.
