Letter to the editor Overview of The Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games The Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games were held for nine weeks from July 23 to September 5, 2021. They are most notable for being held under the exceptional circumstance of the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) global pandemic. During this time, Tokyo was experiencing an outbreak of COVID-19 infection, which is why, most competitions were held without audiences as a safety measure along with restricted entry of all associates. Nevertheless, approximately 11,000 Olympic athletes and 41,000 of their associates, 4,400 Paralympic athletes, and 12,000 officials from over 200 countries participated in the games [1]. An Olympic village polyclinic was established to provide medical services at the athlete`s village. The polyclinic provided services including internal medicine, orthopedics, dermatology, urology, ophthalmology, dentistry, female athlete clinic, physical therapy, 24-hour emergency services as well as mental health services, for which five qualified psychiatrists were assigned. Studies on previous Olympic Games have reported a small number of mental health consultations with minor psychiatric manifestations in the Olympic polyclinic [2, 3]. However, we presume that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, unusual mental health issues would have been experienced during the 2020 Games.
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