{"id":443033,"date":"2020-08-06T04:20:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T11:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=443033"},"modified":"2020-08-07T15:58:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T22:58:58","slug":"olympic-rings-removed-from-open-water-venue-with-return-planned-ahead-of-tokyo-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/olympic-rings-removed-from-open-water-venue-with-return-planned-ahead-of-tokyo-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Rings Removed From Open Water Venue To Return Ahead Of Next Year&#8217;s Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympic rings installation on a barge in <strong>Tokyo Bay<\/strong> has been temporarily removed for maintenance with plans to return in December ahead of the rescheduled <strong>Tokyo 2020<\/strong> Games.<\/p>\n<p>The structure &#8211; which stands 15.3m tall and 32.6m wide &#8211; was installed seven months ago in the <strong>Odaiba Marine Park,<\/strong> where the open water swimming and triathlon were due to be held before the Olympics were postponed in March in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Had they gone ahead, Tokyo 2020 would have been moving into its final stages with the Closing Ceremony originally scheduled for Sunday 9 August.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"424262\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/the-week-that-was-russia-sports-minister-wants-doping-ban-dropped-so-sports-can-come-together-in-coronavirus-crisis\/tokyo2021\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tokyo2021.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,733\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1585060874&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"tokyo2021\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;tokyo2021&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tokyo2021-700x500.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tokyo2021.jpeg\" class=\" wp-image-424262 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tokyo2021-700x500.jpeg\" alt=\"tokyo 2021\" width=\"283\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tokyo2021-700x500.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tokyo2021-280x200.jpeg 280w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tokyo2021-300x215.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tokyo2021-450x322.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tokyo2021-150x107.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tokyo2021-500x358.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tokyo2021-533x382.jpeg 533w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tokyo2021.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Instead, they have been rescheduled for this time next year although at the moment it is unclear how they will go ahead or in what form.<\/p>\n<p>The barge was taken from its mooring area by small tugboats on a warm, sunny morning in the Japanese capital, a symbolic moment at a time when the city would otherwise have been full of the chaos, history and emotion of the Games. 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