exceladdict
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Mrs Excel and I have decided to research attending the 2020 Olympic Games and I'm interested as to whether there are others on here hoping to do the same! A few months still to go until the 355-day booking windows open, but I thought that a planning thread could be interesting to see how others are hoping to approach it - and whether anyone has past experiences from Rio, London, or Beijing that might help towards planning too.
Some useful points of discussion could be:
This Wikivoyage Page summarises the event calendar nicely, a very rough run down of highlights for me:
- July 24 (Fri): Opening Ceremony (some soccer games prior)
- Week 1: Swimming, Tennis, Gymnastics, many combat and team sports
- Week 2: Athletics, team sport gold medals (basketball,hockey, volleyball etc), pentathlon
- Aug 9 (Sun): Closing Ceremony
Mods, please feel free to move, combine or delete if this duplicates another thread! Very keen to hear about what other AFF'ers have in mind for next year.
Some useful points of discussion could be:
- Ticket acquisition - methodology, timing, etc - agencies in Australia for buying tickets if they are not available online to the general public
- Accommodation options in/around Tokyo
- Getting around
- Which events to attend or avoid
- What else to do while in Japan in Summer, and
- Every AFF'ers favourite part - getting there and back!
This Wikivoyage Page summarises the event calendar nicely, a very rough run down of highlights for me:
- July 24 (Fri): Opening Ceremony (some soccer games prior)
- Week 1: Swimming, Tennis, Gymnastics, many combat and team sports
- Week 2: Athletics, team sport gold medals (basketball,hockey, volleyball etc), pentathlon
- Aug 9 (Sun): Closing Ceremony
Mods, please feel free to move, combine or delete if this duplicates another thread! Very keen to hear about what other AFF'ers have in mind for next year.