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August 30th, 2006 at 6:00 pm

Tokyo’s Olympic dream

» by Tokyoid in: Japan, Sports, Tokyo

News just in… Tokyo has been chosen as the official Japanese candidate bid for the 2016 games by the Japanese Olympic Committee (33 votes to 22). No one I’ve spoken to who lives there wants it though, either supporting Fukuoka as the underdog or alternatively not wanting years of construction projects and congestion. I suspect they won’t have much to worry about as the bid is likely to remain just that, a bid. Still, it gives the Governor an excuse to run again next year.

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    Bah. No city should be able to get the Olympics twice. L.A. shouldn’t have gotten it in 1984. Athens, well, we can cut them a little slack I guess.

    ppayne on August 30th, 2006
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    I’m slightly familiar with the Fukuoka bid. They put forward a plan that would have involved a very IT Olympics, with cameras positioned at all the sites to transmit images directly to cellphones, etc.

    The problem seems to have been the Tokyo/provinces divide that still prevails in the minds of people of the age doing the voting.

    Ampontan on September 2nd, 2006
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