Tunnel and Crossing

With the entire world plunged into the COVID-19 pandemic, Tokyo 2020 ‘+1’ became a symbol of people passing through a dark tunnel into the light. If a historical period can be regarded as liminal, special attention must be paid to the thoughts and practices in this period. Based on previous liminality/liminoid research by Gennep and Turner, this study explored the behaviour and performance of five communitas – the IOC, the TOC, the Government of Japan, athletes, and Japanese people in the process of separation and tunnel crossing. (1) The separation state of the five communitas differs from the category included in previous theories. Liminoids may not necessarily have been designed in advance, but can also spontaneously arise as a force for changes in major events or disasters. (2) As a liminoid event, the tunnel functions as a liminal experience and exhibits a special ontological status and state of ‘reinforced structure’. (3) The IOC may hold a special ‘X + Tokyo2020’ Olympics in the future to bring those involved out of the liminality. (4) The idea of a tunnel could help the Olympic Games or other sports events open up new ideas and form a creative mode of resistance to uncertainty

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