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Tokyo Olympics 2021: Schedule, Events and Where to Watch

The Tokyo Olympic Games will be held from late July to early August, after a year of postponement due to the coronavirus epidemic.

Whether you're wondering how to watch Simone Biles pull off a Yurchenko double pike or you're simply glad to see athletes chase their ambitions, there's enough to see with 339 events being broadcast in real time from Tokyo.

The summer Olympics, still officially known as the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, will take place in Tokyo from July 23 to August 8, 2021. (A few preparatory events take place before to the opening ceremony on July 23.)

When do the Olympics begin?

The opening ceremony is scheduled on Friday, July 23, in the evening, Tokyo time. Tokyo is 13 hours ahead of the Eastern time zone in the United States. The event will begin at 7 a.m. EDT.

On Friday, July 23, at 6:55 a.m., NBC will show its first-ever live coverage of an opening ceremony. to 11 a.m. EDT.

Then, at 11 a.m., a special edition of TODAY will broadcast. till 1:00 p.m. EDT.

The first Olympic afternoon program on NBC airs at 1 p.m. till 4:00 p.m. EDT.

Primetime coverage starts at 7:30 p.m. It begins at 8:00 a.m. EDT and ends at 12:00 a.m.

How can I watch the Olympics?

The Olympics 2021 Live Stream are broadcast on NBC, so tune in at 8 p.m. for primetime coverage. EDT (5 p.m. PDT). You may also watch the games on Peacock, NBCOlympics.com, and NBC Sports. Watch TODAY and TODAY All Day for the most recent news and interviews from those early morning events.

The following are the start timings for some of the most popular Olympic events. Visit NBCOlympics.com for the complete Olympic schedule. Subtract 13 hours for the Eastern time zone and 16 hours for the Pacific time zone if you're looking at Tokyo time. (In general, if an event is scheduled for the evening in Tokyo, it will be morning on the East coast; if it is scheduled for the morning, it will appear the night before.)

When is Olympic gymnastics?

Olympic gymnastics will be held in Tokyo from July 24 to August 3, 2021; because to time differences, they will begin on July 23 in the United States. All timings shown below are in Eastern Daylight Time.

Friday, July 23rd, 9 p.m. EDT: Twelve men's teams fight for a place in the final; gymnasts also compete for berths in the all-around and apparatus finals.

Saturday, July 24, 8:30 p.m. EDT: Twelve women's teams fight for a place in the final; gymnasts also compete for berths in the all-around and apparatus finals.

Monday, July 26th, 6 a.m. EDT: The top eight teams participate in the men's gymnastics team final at Ariake Gymnastics Center.

Tuesday, July 27, 6:45 a.m. EDT: The top eight teams participate in the women's gymnastics team final at Ariake Gymnastics Center.

Wednesday, July 28, 6:15 a.m. EDT: The top 24 gymnasts participate in the men's individual all-around final at Ariake Gymnastics Center.

Thursday, July 29, 6:50 a.m. EDT: The top 24 gymnasts participate in the women's individual all-around final at Ariake Gymnastics Center.

Sunday, August 1, 4:00 a.m. EDT: The ladies participate on vault and uneven bars, while the men compete on floor exercise and pommel horse.

Monday, August 2, 4:00 a.m. EDT: The ladies participate on floor exercise, while the men compete on rings and vault.

Tuesday, August 3, 4:00 a.m. EDT: The ladies participate on balancing beam, while the men compete on parallel bars and high bar.

When is Olympic swimming?

Olympic swimming will be contested from July 24 to August 1, 2021. Swimming meets are usually held around 6 a.m. on most days. and 9:30 p.m. EDT. Because of the 13-hour time difference, some of the events mentioned may have aired in the United States the night before. The whole Olympic swimming schedule may be seen at NBCOlympics.com.

Saturday, July 24, heats in the men's and women's 400m IM, women's 100m butterfly, women's 4x100m freestyle, and more.

Sunday, July 25: Finals and heats sessions; medals given in the men's and women's 400m IM, men's 400m freestyle, and women's 4x100 freestyle relay.

Monday, July 26: Finals and heats sessions; medals given in the women's 100m butterfly, men's 100m breaststroke, women's 400m freestyle, and men's 4x100m freestyle relay.

Tuesday, July 27, finals and heats session; medals given in men's and women's 100m backstroke, men's 200m freestyle, and women's 100m breaststroke.

Wednesday, July 28: Finals and heats session; medals given in the women's 200m freestyle, men's 200m butterfly, women's 200m IM, women's 1500m freestyle, and men's 4x200m freestyle relay.

Thursday, July 29, finals and heats sessions; medals given in the men's 100m freestyle, men's 800m freestyle, men's 200m breaststroke, women's 200m butterfly, and women's 4x200m freestyle relay.

Friday, July 30: Finals and heats sessions; medals given in the women's 100m freestyle, women's 200m breaststroke, men's 200m backstroke, and men's 200m IM.

Saturday, July 31, Finals session; medals given in the men's 100m butterfly, women's 200m backstroke, women's 800m freestyle, and mixed 4x100m medley relay.

Sunday, August 1: Finals session; medals given in men's and women's 50m freestyle, men's 1500m freestyle, women's 4x100m medley relay, and men's 4x100m medley relay.

When is Olympic track & field?

The Olympic track and field competition will be held from July 30 to August 8, 2021. Check out the Olympic track and field schedule on NBCOlympics.com for the complete schedule in Eastern Daylight Time.

Friday, July 30: The men's 10,000m final; first rounds in the men's 400m hurdles, women's 100m, mixed 4x400m relay, women's 800m, and women's 5000m; and more.

Saturday, July 31: Finals in the women's 100m, mixed 4x400m relay, and men's discus; preliminary rounds in the women's 100m hurdles and 400mH, as well as the men's 800m; and more.

Sunday, August 1: Men's 100m, women's triple jump, women's shot put, and men's high jump finals; women's 100m hurdles and 400mH semifinals; and more.

Monday, August 2: Finals in the women's 100m hurdles, men's steeplechase, women's 5000m, men's long jump, and women's discus; semifinals, first rounds, and more.

Tuesday, Aug. 3: Men's 400m hurdles, men's pole vault, women's long jump, women's 200m, women's hammer, and women's 800m finals; semis, first rounds, and more.

Wednesday, August 4: Finals in the men's 200m, women's 400m hurdles, men's 800m, women's steeplechase, and men's hammer; semifinals, first rounds, and more.

Thursday, August 5: Finals in the men's shot put, men's triple jump, women's pole vault, men's 110mH and men's 400m; heptathlon 800m and decathlon 1500m; and more.

Friday, August 6: Finals in both 4x100m relays, the men's 5K, the women's 1500m, the women's 400m, the women's javelin, the women's 20km walk, and the men's 50km walk; and more.

Saturday, August 7: The women's marathon, as well as finals in the men's and women's 4x400m relays, women's high jump, men's 1500m, women's 10,000m, and men's javelin.

The men's marathon is on August 8th.

Where can I get the whole Olympic schedule?

Looking for beach volleyball, archery, or a day-by-day itinerary? The whole schedule is available at NBCOlympics.com. Here are sport-by-sport guides:

Schedule for archery

Schedule for artistic swimming

Schedule of badminton

Baseball schedule

Basketball schedule

Basketball schedule (3x3)

Schedule for beach volleyball

Boxing schedule

Canoe and kayak timetable

Cycling schedule

Diving schedule

Equestrian schedule

Fencing schedule

Field hockey schedule

Golf schedule

Gymnastics schedule

Handball schedule

Judo schedule

Schedule for karate

The modern pentathlon schedule

Rhythmic gymnastics timetable

Rowing schedule

Rugby schedule

The sailing schedule

Shooting schedule

Skateboarding schedule

Soccer schedule

Softball schedule

Sport climbing timetable

Table tennis schedule

Schedule for tae kwon do

Tennis schedule

Track and field schedule

Trampoline schedule

Triathlon timetable

Volleyball schedule

Water polo schedule

Weight-lifting Program

Wrestling schedule

When do the Olympics end?

All wonderful things must come to an end. The Olympics' closing ceremony will take place on Sunday, August 8 at 7 a.m. EDT.

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The Tokyo 2021 Olympics Are in Trouble

The International Olympic Committee and the Japanese government believe that the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo are actually too massive to fail. However, failure is always an option. Covid-19 cases are on the rise in Japan, with fewer than 100 days before the scheduled onset. Anger regarding the Games is also on the rise in Japan, with the hashtag #CancelOlympics circulating on Twitter last week. According to a new survey, more than seven in ten Japanese citizens do not want the Olympics to take place this summer, with 39 percent choosing an immediate suspension and another 33 percent preferring further postponement.

And certain political leaders seem to be vacillating. Toshihiro Nikai, Secretary-General of the governing Liberal Democratic Party, said on Japanese television, "If it becomes unlikely, it should be called off." What is the point of the Olympics if it is liable for the transmission of diseases?” The Japanese Communist Party's Akira Koike said the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be "impossible." The need for the Olympics to be canceled is increasing.

Meanwhile, Tokyo Olympic supporters have been behaving like blinkered greyhounds following a mechanical bunny across the racetrack. President of the Tokyo Organizing Committee, Seiko Hashimoto, has insisted that the Games will take place. Hashimoto, who recently took over the job after previous president Yoshiro Mori was fired for overt misogyny, admitted "a lot of issues," but added, "As the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee, we are not considering canceling the games." Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has maintained that, considering the increase in Covid-19 cases in Japan, there has been “no shift in the government stance to do anything to ensure a healthy and successful Olympics.” Sugahas repeated the International Olympic Committee's flimsy proclamation that the Tokyo Olympics was "a sign of optimism to the country" and "the illumination at the end of the tunnel."

Here come the public health experts. Kazuki Shimizu, Devi Sridhar, Kiyosu Taniguchi, and Kenji Shibuya wrote in a scathing essay published in the scholarly journal The BMJ, “Plans to hold the Olympic and Paralympic games this summer must be reconsidered as a matter of urgency.” The entire human population understands the urgency of containing the pandemic and saving lives. Holding Tokyo 2020 for domestic political and economic reasons thus dismissing science and spiritual imperatives is incompatible with Japan's contribution to public health and human security.”

In Japan, fewer than 1% of the populace has been vaccinated, with just 0.4 percent receiving two doses of the vaccine. To make it worse, Japan's populace is generally wary of vaccines. According to a survey published in The Lancet, Japan has one of the lowest levels of vaccine trust in the world: fewer than 10% of those polled firmly accepted that vaccinations are secure.

Meanwhile, in the midst of a spike of cases in Japan, the government is pouring more funds into the Olympics—and the Games' expenses are now four times greater than their initial $7.3 billion estimate (that's almost $30 billion, a remarkable amount by Olympic standards, rivaled only by their Chinese neighbors). The Olympic Minister of Japan has openly recommended that Olympic competitors be checked on a regular basis during the Games. According to Japanese media sources, Olympic organizers have reserved about 300 hotel rooms for Olympians who test positive for coronavirus symptoms, at an expense of millions of dollars. All of this comes after the Japanese government sparked eyebrows by inconveniently suspending the state of emergency order just days before the Olympic Torch Relay began. The government then placed a month-long "quasi-emergency" order on Tokyo earlier this month, even as the torch relay continues to wind its way across the region.

“People in Japan understood that the lifting of the state of emergency came too fast, and the sight of the torch relay has disturbed many,” Satoko Itani, a professor at Kansai University, told The Country. “To add insult to injury, many Japanese medical personnel are also searching for the vaccination. Vaccination of the aged has just just began and is most certainly not be finished until the start of the Olympics. Hospitals in Japan are being overcome by the increasingly growing number of COVID patients.” Itani said, "It is impossible not to recognize that the attempt to contain the Covid-19 virus in Japan has been seriously compromised or sacrificed as a result of the Olympics." People often recognize that while there seem to be an infinite number of services accessible for organizing the Olympics, there are very little available to save people's lives and livelihoods in Japan.”

In certain ways, the Japanese people have come around to the viewpoint of anti-Olympics campaigners in Tokyo and around the world: the Games do not take place. Natsuko Sasaki, who was born and raised in Japan, told us, "It is significant that so many Japanese citizens have heard how the invincible Olympic machine functions." Sasaki, who now resides in France and is a part of the anti-Olympics party NON aux JO 2024 à Paris, added that the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics have not yet appeared on the general public's radar due to the predominance of coronavirus coverage in the French media, but that the current fiasco in Tokyo could change that.

What is clear is that perhaps the most zealous Olympic coverage boosters would hail the 2020 Games as a sign of optimism. Far from it; they have been a shrine of excess and waste in the sense of a pandemic where services are urgently required. If the condition in Tokyo stays the same or worsens, there will be a backlash against these Games, and the revolt will reverberate in Paris and Los Angeles, the locations of the next two Summer Games. Tokyo's determination to hold the Games even though it means exacerbating the pandemic increases the risks sharply for Olympic supporters and protesters alike.

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NBC to air Tokyo Olympics 2021 Opening Ceremony in First Live Morning Broadcast

The Tokyo Games possess a list 339 events together with the very first awards given on Saturday, July 24. That is triumphed by NBC's first Olympic daytime series within a opening Friday of these Games in 1 ET/10 a.m. PT. It begins with a exceptional two-hour TODAY in 11 a.m. ET and 8 Gamble PT, including Opening Ceremony response and athlete interviews.

"After the unprecedented challenges posed by the international pandemic, the entire world could come together in Tokyo for that which might be the most purposeful and expected Opening Ceremony in history," Pete Bevacqua, Chairman, NBC Sports Group, stated in a media release. "Given the size of the event, we would like to provide audiences with as many strategies to link with it as you can, live or at primetime."

Non-medal contest begins Wednesday, July 21 with soccer and softball games which are going to be a part of NBC Olympics' comprehensive multi-platform coverage. Overall, it is 18 full hours of Olympic programming on NBC at a 22-hour period to kick the biggest Olympics ever.

The Tokyo Opening Ceremony begins at 8 pm locally, which is 7 a.m. Eastern moment. NBC's broadcast policy that morning begins at 6:55 ET and will be dwell across all time zones. NBC airs its live morning air of an Olympic Opening Ceremony out of Tokyo as a part of extravagant daylong network policy of the very first Friday of an Olympics on July 23.

NBC Olympic Broadcast Program on July 23 "We're thrilled to provide live coverage of the Opening Ceremony for people who need immediacy, also, later in the afternoon, assemble NBC Olympics' excellent primetime heritage with a complete party of these anticipated Tokyo Olympics, complete with specialist evaluation and improved protection of Team USA," explained Molly Solomon, Executive Producer and President, NBC Olympics Generation.

NBC Olympics 2021 Broadcast Schedule on July 23

Eastern Time

6:55-11 a.m. Live Opening Ceremony Coverage 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Special Edition of TODAY 1-4 p.m. Tokyo Olympics Daytime 7:30 p.m.-12 a.m. Primetime Opening Ceremony 12:35-5 a.m. Overnight Replay of Opening Ceremony

Pacific Time

3:55-8 a.m. Live Opening Ceremony Coverage 8-10 a.m. Special Edition of TODAY 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Tokyo Olympics Daytime 4:30-9 p.m. Primetime Opening Ceremony 9:10 p.m.-1:10 a.m. Opening Ceremony Primetime Encore 1:10-5 a.m. Overnight Replay of Opening Ceremony

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