An official of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, saying 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games marathon start time is still in limbo.
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The committee has set the marathon’s start time at 7 a.m., 30 minutes earlier than initially planned. However, in the wake of this summer’s heat wave, some have called for introducing daylight saving time while others have proposed holding the marathon’s events at night. There is no end in sight for discussions over the time schedule for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics marathon.
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kurisupisu
Running marathons in August at any time in the summer months is against common sense!
Ah_so
Hold it in Hokkaido
JeffLee
If summer time can help relieve the heat during summer, why not have it every year throughout the entire season?
There's a reason Singapore, Bangkok and other overheated muggy cities don't apply to host the Olympic Games.
Steve Sin
Japan should carefully ponder why EU is seriously considering to give up DST.
More than anything else, it is stupid to introduce DST to NATION to host the Olympics in CITY(correctly speaking, including neighbouring prefectures).
goldorak
How about running the marathon on treadmills at the Tokyo dome or is that 'too' innovative ;)
Ah_so
You misunderstand.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/eu-daylight-saving-time-stop-member-countries-clocks-back-forward-summer-a8516426.html
They are not giving up DST - they are planning on having permanent DST.
Jspan should too. After all, would it be bad for you if it got light at 5am and dark at 8pm in summer?
Fora bit of history:
Is saving energy such a bad thing,
TigersTokyoDome
Reckless, I walk to my station in Tokyo at around 07:50am, and this summer was unbearable. It was so bad I chose a longer path in the shade, and just for a 10 minute walk. The Olympic marathon winner will be only half way through at 08:00am.
The decision making is idiotic because all they had to do was to run it at night. They could keep the central Tokyo location and most of the tv world is awake at that time. Starting the Tokyo Olympic marathon at 20:00 would make quite a difference, not so much in terms of temperature, but in terms of sunlight heat.
Running the marathon at 20:00 would also have less effect on rush hour traffic.