Tokyo Olympics 2020

[piscesboy]

Tokyo has been chosen by the International Olympic Committee to host the 2020 Summer Games.

In voting Saturday in Buenos Aires, the committee picked Tokyo over the two other contenders, Madrid and Istanbul.

The announcement came at 5:20 a.m. Tokyo time, but a large crowd watching on an outdoor video screen burst into cheers.

Tokyo previously hosted the Summer Games in 1964.

Japan's bid for 2020 billed the city as the safe choice -- despite radiation leaking from the Fukushima nuclear plant. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe personally made a presentation to the committee and promised an effective cleanup.
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"I am so happy, I am overjoyed," Abe told reporters at the post-announcement press conference.

"I would like to share this joy with the people back home. We've received so much support from the people of the IOC and I would also like to express my support to them. And to the people around the world.

Tokyo to host 2020 Olympic Games - CNN.com

in other news:

TOKYO - Kohei Jinno fans out the black and white photos of his family posing proudly in front of their central Tokyo home, a house they were forced to leave ahead of the 1964 Olympic Games to make way for construction of the main stadium.

Now Jinno, 79, has to move again.

The public housing complex where he and his wife live, close to the stadium and the site of his former home - currently a parking lot - is slated to be destroyed as part of construction of a new stadium for the 2020 Summer Olympics, which Tokyo won the right to host again earlier this month.

"Fate has not been kind to me. It may be great fortune for the nation, but having to leave this place fills me with sadness," he told Reuters.

"I just feel that had it not been for the Olympics, my life would have been so different."

The current National Olympic Stadium, which holds an almost iconic place in Japanese hearts for being the site of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1964 Games, when Japan became the first Asian nation to host the Olympics, is set to be demolished in 2014 to make way for newer facilities.
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"I wish they wouldn't have the Olympics in Tokyo again," he said. "I can bear getting evicted if it's just the once in a lifetime. But twice? It's ridiculous."

Olympics: Tokyo man to lose home to make way for stadium - again | Sports | GMA News Online

[Retz]

Looking forward for a gold medal for the Philippine Team in Tokyo.

[niky]

Welcome to the Neo-Tokyo games.

New events:
Motorbike combat
Psychic duels
Post-nuclear pill-popping

[_Qwerty_]

Tokyo Olympic Games could be cancelled if coronavirus not controlled, IOC member says | Sport | The Guardian

A senior member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said outright cancellation of the Games, rather than postponement or relocation, would be likely if the disease proved too dangerous for the event – which is scheduled to start on 24 July – to go ahead.

Dick Pound, a former Canadian swimming champion who has been on the IOC since 1978, estimated there is a three-month window – perhaps a two-month one – to decide the fate of the Tokyo Games, meaning a decision could be put off until late May.

“In and around that time, I’d say folks are going to have to ask: ‘Is this under sufficient control that we can be confident about going to Tokyo or not?’” Pound told Associated Press.

As the Games draw near, he said, “A lot of things have to start happening. You’ve got to start ramping up your security, your food, the Olympic Village, the hotels. The media folks will be in there, building their studios.”

If the IOC decides the games cannot go forward as scheduled in Tokyo, “you’re probably looking at a cancellation”, he said.

[Monseratto]

Tokyo Olympics hold test event without fans, top athletes | Inquirer Sports

Closed off competition.... No audience allowed.

[falken]

Tokyo Olympics hold test event without fans, top athletes | Inquirer Sports

Closed off competition.... No audience allowed.

They should just postpone it if possible.

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[shadow]

Postpone na nila dahil pag sumali mga chinese athletes mahahawaan pa lalo lahat.


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[dr. d]

Postpone na nila dahil pag sumali mga chinese athletes mahahawaan pa lalo lahat.


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naka-mask lahat.
including the swimmers.

[shadow]

naka-mask lahat.
including the swimmers.

Banned nga chinese eh. So wala silang mapapadang athletes.


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[dr. d]

Banned nga chinese eh. So wala silang mapapadang athletes.


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allow them, provided they wear masks.

or,
we just want them banned, so's someones else can take the gold...

[shadow]

allow them, provided they wear masks.

or,
we just want them banned, so's someones else can take the gold...

Can't take the risk, for all we know athletes they will be sending are all positive for Wuhan China virus. Can't trust them.


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[Devastator]

Sayonara Tokyo, Bonjour Paris.

[falken]

naka-mask lahat.
including the swimmers.

🤣

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[boybi]

Ituloy lang, i-ban ang China, Russia, USA! Pagkakataon na ng Pinas magka gold sa olympics!

[jmc21420]

Ituloy lang, i-ban ang China, Russia, USA! Pagkakataon na ng Pinas magka gold sa olympics!

But in what sport?


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[kisshmet]

From silver medal in Rio de Janeiro to gold medal in tokyo..congrats hidilyn diaz for bagging the very 1st Olympic gold medal of the philippines

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[dr. d]

years ago,
her lifting career wasn't sailing very smoothly...

[shadow]

Diba sinama pa sa matrix yan ni dutiti na kasama sa mag oust sa kanya.

Olympian Hidilyn Diaz fears for life after inclusion in oust-Duterte matrix

Baka magkalimutan pag balik dito ha.
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[Devastator]

Diba sinama pa sa matrix yan ni dutiti na kasama sa mag oust sa kanya.

Olympian Hidilyn Diaz fears for life after inclusion in oust-Duterte matrix

Baka magkalimutan pag balik dito ha.
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Babatiin ni king kong at mga alipores iyan as if nothing happened.

[c_cube]

Baka sabihin ng mga DDS salamat kay digong, best president ever ang pag gold na ito

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