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A celebration of hope

Tokyo Legacy

Tokyo 2020 Golf Olympics rings
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Tokyo 2020 legacy highlights social and environmental benefits created by the Games
 Floral arrangements of Mascots of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
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Power to the people: Tokyo 2020 set to replicate the legacy of 1964
 Team Japan skateboard park team
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Tokyo 2020 set to match Japan’s first home Games in driving sports participation
 Tokyo 1964 Opening Ceremony
Tokyo 1964 Legacy
Tokyo 1964: The Games that brought a nation together
 Fukushima Azuma Stadium
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Tokyo 2020 “Recovery Olympics” give hope to regions affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake
 Yoyogi National Gymnasium
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Tokyo 2020’s Olympic venues combine tradition with the future
 A General view of Skateboarding Park venue at the Ariake Urban Sports Park
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“I received a baton… to pass on to the next generation” says Tokyo 2020 pictograms designer

About the IOC

IOC principles

A phoenix is suspended over the Olympic Cauldron at the Closing ceremony at London 2012
The IOC is at the very heart of world sport, supporting every Olympic Movement stakeholder, promoting Olympism worldwide, and overseeing the regular celebration of the Olympic Games. The IOC is also committed to promoting sport in society, strengthening the integrity of sport and supporting clean athletes and other sports organisations.
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The IOC as an organisation

Established in on 23 June 1894, the International Olympic Committee is a not-for-profit independent international organisation. Based in Lausanne, Switzerland, the Olympic Capital, it is entirely privately funded and distributes 90 per cent of its revenues to the wider sporting movement, for the development of sport and athletes at all levels.
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Gender equality
Gender equality is a top priority for the Olympic Movement. The two main aims are to make access to sport in general and the Olympic Games easier for female athletes, and to increase the number of women in sports administration and management.
IOC Refugee Olympic Team Tokyo 2020
IOC Refugee Olympic Team
At the UN General Assembly in October 2015, confronted with the global refugee crisis that has seen an estimated 65.3 million people in the world displaced, IOC President Thomas Bach announced the creation of the Refugee Olympic Team to take part in the Olympic Games Rio 2016. Ten months on from the announcement, 10 athletes were competing alongside 11,000 fellow athletes in Brazil, sending a message of hope and inclusion to millions of refugees around the world and inspiring the world with the strength of their human spirit.
 
Olympic legacy
Olympic legacy includes the long-term benefits that the Olympic Games create for the host city, its people, and the Olympic Movement before, during and long after the Olympic Games. Find out more about our strategic approach to Olympic legacy.
Olympic Solidarity
Olympic Solidarity redistributes the share of the broadcast rights from the Olympic Games through programmes offered to all 206 National Olympic Committees. All Olympic Solidarity’s programmes are aimed at developing and promoting sport worldwide, and encouraging athletes’ participation in the Olympic Games.
Sustainability
The IOC takes a proactive approach to ensure that sustainability is embedded in all aspects of organising the Olympic Games. Leaving a sustainable and positive legacy for the host city and country is a primary, achievable objective for all organisers of the Olympic Games.
The Olympic Partners Programme
The Olympic Partners (TOP) programme is the highest level of Olympic sponsorship, granting category-exclusive marketing rights to the Summer, Winter and Youth Olympic Games to a select group of global partners.