In a recent announcement, the IOC said that athletes eligible to join Olympic Games 2020 will still be able to attend it in 2021. Therefore, Vietnamese eligible athletes like Nguyen Huy Hoang (swimming), Nguyen Van Duong (boxing), Le Thanh Tung (gymnastics), Do Thi Anh Nguyet and Nguyen Hoang Phi Vu (archery) can still go to Tokyo to compete in 2021 .
Archery brings Vietnam Sports 2 slots to attend the Olympic games.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, since early this year, many Olympic qualifying tournaments must have been postponed. Meanwhile, the number of qualified Olympic participants only reached 57% of 11,000 athletes. The goal of the IOC is to keep intact the number of athletes participating in each subject. However, solving this problem is considered as a absolutely not easy task for the IOC and its member committees.
After postponing the Olympic Tokyo, qualifying tournaments for athletics, swimming and gymnastics have been postponed this year and new schedules of them will not be set up until the IOC determines the Olympics schedule in 2021.
In fact, when many tournaments of sports such as boxing, shooting, weightlifting, etc., are postponed, there is still a lack of athletes. In addition, two play-off matches in women-football between China and Korea have not been held.
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Vietnam Weightlifting efforts to attend the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020.
To Vietnamese Sports, after the decision to postpone Tokyo Olympic Games to 2021, many sports changed their preparation plans. In particular, sports without eligible athletes further wait for qualifying competitions in order to have an official slot. To those who have won slots to the 2020 Olympic Games, to prepare for the initial Olympic Games held this summer, they have been practicing hard, following special lesson plans to achieve a perfect performance. However, the postponement of the Olympic because of the COVID-19 pandemic caused them to rewrite the training plan from the beginning.
M.Tuan