JOINT OPENING CEREMONY FOR THE SYMPOSIUM ON SPORT TECHNOLOGY AND OLYMPIC LEGACIES
Venue: Meiji-Jingu, Sanshuden
08:30 Private Audience with His Majesty The King of Belgium (Hotel Otani)
09:50 Opening of the doors of joint opening ceremony at Meiji Jingu
10:25 Start of opening ceremony and speech of Minister President Geert Bourgeois
10:50 End of opening ceremony at Meiji Jingu
11:00 Start of Olympic legacies symposium and sport technology seminars in separate venues.
13:00 end of symposium / seminar
ROUND TABLE
TOP SPORT, OLYMPIC GAMES AND LEGACIES: FROM ANTWERP 2020 TO TOKYO 2020
Venue: Shii-no-ma, 11:00-13:00
Introduction and Welcome Note
Sato Masahiro (director Meiji Jingu Intercultural Research Center)
Introduction to the topic: Olympic Legacies – Planned and Unplanned
Andreas Niehaus (Ghent University)
Remembering The Antwerp Games in 2020
Paul Van Cauweberge (Ghent University/ Sportimonium Museum)
The Olympics and the Construction of Tokyo
Shimizu Satoshi (Tsukuba University):
Discourses of Legacy: Tokyo 2020
Lee Thompson (Waseda University):
Paralympic Legacies
Tanaka Nobuko (Toin University of Yokohama)
‘What makes countries successful in elite sport?’ Olympic preparation and the value of success.
Veerle De Bossche (Free University of Brussels)
Investing in talented and Olympic athletes as a legacy for society at large
Paul Wylleman (Free University of Brussels)
An athlete’s perspective: Legacies of Winning Olympic Medals
Gella Vandecaveye (Olympic judo medalist, in discussion with Paul Wylleman)