Tokyo to host 2020 Olympic Games
The Japanese urban meat of Tokyo volition host the 2020 Olympic Games, afterward beating Istanbul together with Madrid inwards the final circular of voting inwards the race to host the XXXII Olympiad.
The equestrian events for the Games are to live on held on an artificial isle built from waste materials landfill inwards the Tokyo district of Kōtō. The venue is known every bit Dream Island – Yumenoshima (夢の島) together with was built from the belatedly 1950s every bit a solution to Tokyo’s garbage problem.
The Island is inwards the Olympic “Tokyo Bay Zone”, which covers a sum of 21 contest venues. There are half dozen venues on Dream Island.
Dream Island has been covered over alongside a layer of transcend soil together with includes a sports park, a Tropical Greenhouse Dome, the Fukuryū Maru Memorial Museum, a large-scale yacht marina, waste materials disposal together with incinerating facilities.
At 1 fourth dimension the isle was domicile of the Daigo Fukuryū Maru, a angling boat which had been exposed to nuclear fallout during the Bikini Atoll test. The boat was sold to a bit dealer and abandoned on the island inwards the 1960s afterward radiations levels were considered safe.
Tokyo, which likewise bid for the 2016 Games, in conclusion hosted the Olympics inwards 1964. In the final circular of voting during the 125th IOC Session inwards Buenos Aires on Saturday, Tokyo received threescore votes to Istanbul’s 36, alongside Madrid having been eliminated inwards the root circular afterward losing a tie-breaker alongside Istanbul.
“Congratulations to the urban meat of Tokyo on its election every bit host of the 2020 Olympic Games,” said IOC President Jacques Rogge, whose 12-year term inwards part comes to an cease on September 10.
“Tokyo presented a rattling rigid technical bid from the outset – together with it needed to inwards contest alongside 2 such high-calibre bids from Istanbul together with Madrid.
“All 3 cities were capable of staging first-class Games inwards 2020, only inwards the cease it was Tokyo’s bid that resonated the most alongside the IOC membership, inviting us to “discover tomorrow” past times delivering a well-organised together with prophylactic Games that volition reinforce the Olympic values piece demonstrating the benefits of sport to a novel generation,” Rogge said.
With the awarding of the Games to Tokyo, the Japanese authorities says it will double the annual funding for elite sport programmes inwards all Olympic together with Paralympic sports, through the Nippon Sports Council.
Tokyo 2020 states that the bulk of athletes would live on inside twenty minutes of their contest venue. The longest go times would occupation organisation the venues for shooting together with golf game which would live on forty together with 55 minutes respectively from the Village.
Organisers likewise confirmed that grooms together with vets would live on accommodated at the equestrian venue.
The Tokyo Bay Zone volition be accessed past times a combination of metro, suburban track together with charabanc shuttle services.
Japan, a parliamentary democracy, has a population of almost 128 million, alongside xiii 1 yard m inwards the urban meat of
Tokyo together with 36 1 yard m inwards the greater Tokyo area.
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