The Olympic Games begin: the sport that will take the first step, when will the opening ceremony and the presentation of the first medals take place

The Olympic Games will begin with baseball (Photo: Reuters)
The Olympic Games will begin with baseball (Photo: Reuters)

There are still 48 hours until the official start of the Olympic Games, but the activities will already be launched to try to accommodate the calendar towards the closing of the appointment next Sunday, August 8. This Tuesday night in South America the doors of the first discipline will open: the baseball.

The match between Australia and Japan of that sport is scheduled for 9 a.m. Wednesday in Japan, so it will develop in Argentina from 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 20. This will mark the opening of the maximum sporting event that this year will take place in Tokyo after last year’s cancellation due to the pandemic.

Baseball will be one of the six disciplines that will begin before the opening ceremony, to be held on next Friday from 8 in the morning (Argentina time) at National Stadium of Tokyo with the presence of just 1,000 guests in a venue that has a capacity for 68,000 spectators but that will have most of its seats empty due to the prohibition of the presence of the public due to the restrictions that exist in Japan as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

The inauguration will take place next Friday, July 23 (Photo: Reuters)
The inauguration will take place next Friday, July 23 (Photo: Reuters)

The calendar indicates that before the Olympic flame is officially lit, the schedules of football (masculine and feminine), equestrian, rowing, threw Y archery, although some of these events will have their preliminary tests during those hours.

Beyond baseball, what will have six games between Wednesday and Thursday (including those of Mexico against Canada and against Japan), the strongest action will be launched with soccer.

The female soccer branch will be the first to jump onto the pitch on Wednesday at 4.30 with the confrontation between the representatives of Chile and Great Britain in the Sapporo dome. There will be a total of six matches, highlighting the debut of Brazil vs. China (from 5AM) in the Miyagi Stadium.

The first t-shirt albiceleste in action will be that of the Under 23 men’s soccer team that Fernando Batista commands: They will debut on Thursday from 7.30 in the Sapporo dome against Australia. That day eight commitments of men’s football will take place with the start of Spain against Egypt (4.30) and the closing of Brazil vs. Germany (8.00).

The following for the country will only be given with the appearance of the shot promise Fernanda russo, who will start their presence in their category on Friday at 8.30pm with the classification tests. That same day there will be flags albicelestes in another 9 different disciplines, highlighting the debut of Paula Pareto that if he is heading towards a dream medal, he will also be competing on Saturday morning.

The first medals of the Olympic Games will be defined between Friday night and Saturday morning. It is estimated that the first podium will be defined in the 10m rifle in the women’s section, which has its appointment scheduled by the title on Friday around 22.45. There will also be awards in archery, taekwondo, judo, weightlifting, fencing Y road cycling.

* All times are mentioned in Argentina

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