Olympic Games

What: The world’s most fore­most sports com­pe­ti­tion, the sum­mer Olympic Games see’s the world’s top ath­letes from more than 200 nations com­pete across 28 sports for the chance to win not just an Olympic medal, but cre­ate his­to­ry and become both a sport­ing leg­end and a nation­al and inter­na­tion­al hero.

Inspired by the ancient Greek Olympic Games, the Olympics are also syn­ony­mous with not just the five Olympics rings rep­re­sent­ing both the con­ti­nents of the world and glob­al har­mo­ny, but also the flame of the Olympic torch, which burns from the begin­ning to the end of the Olympics.

Each Olympics will also kick off with an extrav­a­gant open­ing cer­e­mo­ny, with not just fire­works and musi­cal acts, but a the­atri­cal colour­ful per­for­mance which gives the host coun­try an oppor­tu­ni­ty to show­cas­es its his­to­ry, virtue and unique­ness to the world as the many ath­letes tak­ing part in the games, led by the flag bear­ers, parade around sta­di­um track.

This is like­wise fol­lowed by a clos­ing cer­e­mo­ny at the close of the 17 days of the games, where in a show of uni­ty and peace all the com­pet­ing ath­letes will gath­er togeth­er to relieve and reflect on the best and icon­ic moments of the games and then cel­e­brate the games in in a par­ty like atmos­phere accom­pa­nied by the best artists of the host nation.

When: The Olympic games take place in the sum­mer months, usu­al­ly from Mid-July to Mid-August, with the exact dates vary­ing for both the start and end of the games and the days on which indi­vid­ual com­pe­ti­tions will be con­test­ed.

Where: The venue and host coun­try of the games will rotate every four years, with coun­tries required to sub­mit appli­ca­tions eight years in advance to host the games and then requir­ing sig­nif­i­cant invest­ment in infra­struc­ture and sta­di­ums to accom­mo­date both the ath­letes and spec­ta­tors – expect the Olympics to take place in a first world coun­try.

Dura­tion: The games them­selves typ­i­cal­ly last for 17 days, includ­ing the open­ing and clos­ing cer­e­mo­ny, with events last­ing as long as mul­ti­ple days or tak­ing place over the course of sec­onds. For the ath­letes involved the qual­i­fy­ing takes place in the years pri­or and for the host nation an Olympic torch relay – which sees the lit Olympic torch car­ried across all areas of the host nation will begin two moths pri­or to the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny.

If attend­ing, it’s advised to look for a day when mul­ti­ple events will be con­test­ed – often dubbed ‘super Sat­ur­day or man­ic Mon­day’ – as this gives you the best chance to wit­ness mul­ti­ple events being con­test­ed and the worlds great­est ath­letes com­pete.

Tick­ets: Tick­ets for the Olympics are divid­ed into two main sec­tions – the first being for peo­ple liv­ing in the host nation and then for those liv­ing abroad.

For those liv­ing in the host nation, giv­en the infra­struc­ture and spend­ing of the host nation, pri­or­i­ty will be giv­en to local res­i­dents, with the Olympics cre­at­ing a spe­cial­ly des­ig­nat­ed por­tal for those indi­vid­u­als acces­si­ble through [https://www.olympic.org] with sign up and then appli­ca­tion required for tick­ets, which are dis­trib­uted through a lot­tery based sys­tem.

For those liv­ing abroad, the same sign up and reg­is­tra­tion process is required but tick­ets can only be pur­chased through autho­rized tick­et resellers – a list of whom for the pre­vi­ous Olympics is avail­able at [https://ticket.tokyo2020.org/Home/ATRList?culture=en-us].

With both options also allow­ing a re-sale and the release of spe­cial tick­ets as the days of the games get clos­er, tick­et prices vary­ing between $70 usd to $300 usd, depend­ing on the reseller pur­chased from and the day of the games being attend­ed.

Need to Know: Along­side the labo­ri­ous tick­et process, it is strong­ly advised that if attend­ing the Olympics in a for­eign coun­try to plan well in advance – with both hotels and trans­port expect­ed to fre­quent­ly increase in price  as the games approach.

More Infor­ma­tion: For fur­ther infor­ma­tion on both the open­ing and clos­ing cer­e­mo­ny, the past Olympics, the upcom­ing venues, the dates of the next games and to begin the process of apply­ing for tick­ets vis­it [https://www.olympic.org].