The Olympic flag was then lowered and passed along by the mayor of Rio de Janeiro to the Head of the Olympic Committee and finally presented to the governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike.
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The nation known for Manga and video games played on its most popular cultural contribution to the world in a teaser for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics at the closing ceremony of the Rio Olympics.
Tokyo 2020 Olympics wil be held from July 24 to August 9, and will have 5 new sports:baseball, climbing, surfing, karate and skateboard, so as to reach 33 sports in the program.
Japan issued commemorative coins to mark the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games, the 1972 Sapporo Winter Games and the 1998 Nagano Winter Games. With demand for silver high, though, it’s unclear if Japan will be able to recycle enough silver in time for the 2020 games.
“I strongly feel a heavy responsiblity” for the next Olympics, Koike told the crowd. At the event, Abe burst onto the stage dressed as the Nintendo video-game character Mario, providing free publicity to an iconic Japanese firm while trying to portray Japan as a modern and fun place.
We saw from the teaser show involving augmented reality and Super Mario that there’s more to the Olympic motto of “Discover Tomorrow”, and it looks like that could stretch to the medals too.
French prosecutors have also launched an investigation into alleged bribes linked to Tokyo’s winning Olympic bid, which organisers have denied.
Koike is a newly elected governor of Tokyo who has pledged to examine the spiraling costs to avoid saddling taxpayers with debt and building white elephants.
And with strict gun control and a public honesty visitors find disarming, few people ever experience serious crime.
The games in Brazil – which is embroiled in a political crisis over the impeachment of suspended president Dilma Rousseff – suffered a series of setbacks.
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