The University of Tokyo has announced that the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics did not affect people’s sports and exercise habits. Masamitsu Kamata, a lecturer at the University of Tokyo Graduate School, analyzed data from multiple national surveys on exercise for the seven years before and after 2013, when the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics were decided to be held. As a result, until 2020, no change in the number of steps, exercise habits, or sports participation rate of the people triggered by the decision to hold the event was confirmed. According to a report prepared by the Organizing Committee, as a legacy of the Games, the national sports participation rate has improved from 42.5% in 2016 to 59.9% in 2020. However, according to Lecturer Kamata, in the survey used for this evaluation, the calculation method was changed, such as “stair climbing” was added to the event from 2017, and it is not appropriate to use it for analysis of aging. is.
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