About the Olympic Games

The Olympics is a quadrennial international multi-sport event celebrated as a global sports festival by people all over the world. The Olympics are held in both the summer and winter, and its ultimate goal is the cultivation of people and world peace through sports.

Flag:

The Olympic  flag has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the center: blue, yellow, black, green and red. This design is symbolic; it represents the five continents of the world, united by Olympism, while the six colours are those that appear on all the national flags of the world at the present time.

New sports in 2021 Olympic games:

• Baseball/softball
• Surfing
• Skateboarding
• Sport climbing
• Karate

Tokyo Officially the Tokyo Metropolitan Prefecture Is the capital of Japan. It is the largest city in Japan, with more than 13,622,267 inhabitants intramural in 2020 and 42,794,714 in the agglomeration, and forms the most populous urban area in the world. Located on the east coast of the main island of the Japanese archipelago, Honshū, Tokyo is one of the forty-seven prefectures of Japan. The main political center of the archipelago since the seventeenth century, the city hosts most of the country's institutions: the residence of the Emperor of Japan, the Prime Minister, the seat of the Diet (the Japanese Parliament), the Cabinet, the departments and all foreign embassies.

 Tokyo was a small fishing village named Edo ("the estuary"). Fortified in the fifteenth century, Edo became the military base of Tokugawa shogun Ieyasu at the end of the sixteenth century, then the capital of his government. During the time of Edo (1603-1868), the city developed and became one of the most populous in the world at the end of the eighteenth century, with a population of nearly a million inhabitants. With the restoration of the Empire in 1868, it is strengthened in its role as the political heart of Japan: the Edo Castle becomes the residence of Emperor Meiji (Kōkyo), and the city acquires its current name as opposed to Kyoto , the old capital. It is ravaged in 1923 by an earthquake of magnitude 7.9 which makes more than 100 000 dead. During the Second World War, it was destroyed half by American aerial bombardment, but was quickly rebuilt. In the second half of the twentieth century, Tokyo became a world-class metropolis thanks to a strong industrial development - especially in electronics - and saw its population multiplied by ten in fifty years