THE GAMES IN NUMBERS

– sports on the schedule for the Tokyo Olympics, with 22 in the Paralympics that follow

– sports chosen by the Tokyo organising committee in addition to the ‘core’ Olympic sports. Karate, sport climbing, surfing and skateboarding appear for the first time, with baseball/softball returning to the Games

– medal events in the Olympic programme, with athletics (48) and swimming (37) accounting for the largest shares

– days of competition in Tokyo, with softball and football starting ahead of the official opening on July 24 and the Games running until August 9

– venues used for the Games, with most concentrated around the ‘Tokyo Bay Zone’ and ‘Heritage Zone’ in the host city but events such as football and baseball taking place around Japan

– capacity of the new national stadium which will be the principal host venue for athletics and the opening and closing ceremonies

– days on the Olympic torch relay, which begins on March 26, 2020, with around 10,000 torchbearers involved

– qualified nations with a year to go. Over 200 nations are expected to compete, as at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro

– expected number of volunteers, split between

‘Games volunteers’ and ‘city volunteers’, at Tokyo 2020 across the Olympics and Paralympics

– weight in tons of used small electronic devices, such as mobile phones, collected by municipal authorities across Japan to provide recycled metals for the approximately 5,000 medals to be presented. Mobile phone operator NTT Docomo collected an additional six million-plus handsets in its stores nationwide

– the Tokyo Games mark the 32nd Olympiad.