Starting date of Judo Olympic tournament at 24 July 2021

July 2021 has emerged as the time frame for the start of the Tokyo Olympics, a source in the organizing committee said. The Judo tournament will start at 24 July 2021 starting the men’s U60kg and women’s U48kg events. The first edition of the team event will take place at 31 July. The opening ceremony will be at 23 July 2021.

A task force has been charged with planning the transition to a 2021 time frame for the Tokyo Games, which on Tuesday became the first in history to be postponed. The original plan was for an opening ceremony on July 24, 2020. A similar time frame for 2021 would have the advantage of reducing the number of changes to the existing organizing plan.

Organizing committee chief Yoshiro Mori suggested there would be no major change from 2020.

"The games are meant to be in summer, so we should be thinking of a time between June and September,” Kyodo reported.

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, after the postponement was announced in Switzerland on Tuesday, left open the possibility of spring dates.

The IOC, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the local organizing committee are all expected to make adjustments to the task force plan.

Recent Olympics have been held over a 17-day stretch, with the opening ceremony on a Friday and wrapping up on the third Sunday. For those reasons, a time frame from July 23, 2021 to Aug. 8 has emerged as a strong candidate.

According to the source, various time frames have been put forward. While a spring Olympics would avoid problems caused by the extreme heat and humidity of Tokyo's summers, a major change in the season would force more logistical plans to be reworked completely.

Holding the event later rather than earlier would allow more margin for error and give the coronavirus pandemic more time to run its course.

Because the Olympics will impact sports calendars around the world, maintaining the current time frame may allow for fewer disruptions overseas.

Although the dates conflict with Swimming and Athletics World Championships, those events will be rescheduled.

Any final decision will be made between local organizers and the IOC, and hundreds of sponsors, sports federations and broadcasters.

Athletes have been left in limbo by the postponement. Many have been forced to stop training because of the spreading coronavirus. Even those who can train have no idea about how to schedule training to reach peak fitness at the right time.

Mori and organizing committee CEO Toshiro Muto have both said the added cost of rescheduling will be "enormous.” Early estimates put those costs at between $2-3 billion with the several levels of the Japanese government likely to foot most of the bills.

Tokyo organizers say they are spending $12.6 billion to stage the games. However, a government audit report said it will cost at least twice that much. All but $5.6 billion is public money.

The Switzerland-based IOC has contributed $1.3 billion to organize the Tokyo Olympics, according to local organizing committee documents. It has a reserve fund of about $2 billion for such emergencies and also has insurance coverage.

Birthdays during the Olympic Games

24 July is the birthday of Olympic Champion Tagir Khaibulaev who won gold in 2012.

At 25 July Riki Nakaya double World Champion and Olympic medallist celebrates 31 years (this year).

At day three 26 July of the Olympic Games in 2021 referee and World medallist Matthieu Bataille celebrates his birthday.

Hidayet Heydarov will fight at his birthday at 27 July in Tokyo once he qualifies U81kg.

Felipe Kitadai will have his birthday at day 5 at 28 July of the Judo Tournament when U70 and U90kg will fight.

When U100 and women U78kg fight, 2012 Olympian Marie Mueller celebrates her birthday at 29 July.

At the last day at 30 July the heavyweights Alon Sasson will follow his brother to continue Israelian success.

The team event at 31 July Katharina Haecker celebrates her birthday