olympikfan Posted September 7, 2013 Report Share Posted September 7, 2013 Tokyo wins no surprise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soaring Posted September 7, 2013 Report Share Posted September 7, 2013 Congrats Tokyo! Make us proud, and please don't be boring!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexjc Posted September 7, 2013 Report Share Posted September 7, 2013 BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! There will be many members here absolutly guttered. I'm one of them! And I know Rols, CAF, Matt, Rob, Et al will be feeling the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arwebb Posted September 7, 2013 Report Share Posted September 7, 2013 No real surprise. I tweeted that the IOC had gone for the safe pair of hands when I heard the decision. I know Tokyo will do a great job, but I would have preferred Istanbul out of the two left standing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox334 Posted September 7, 2013 Report Share Posted September 7, 2013 (edited) Tokyo games are a bit boring but, well, we all know they will be a success. Congrats to the Japanese, I'm sure they'll do a good job. Edited September 7, 2013 by Fox334 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikarus360 Posted September 7, 2013 Report Share Posted September 7, 2013 I wonder if the handover ceremony in 2016 will do a nod to the Liberdade District in Sao Paulo since it has the largest Japanese community outside Japan in the whole world. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberdade_(distrito_de_S%C3%A3o_Paulo) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatsnotmypuppy Posted September 8, 2013 Report Share Posted September 8, 2013 BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! There will be many members here absolutly guttered. I'm one of them! And I know Rols, CAF, Matt, Rob, Et al will be feeling the same. And yet I am so HAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexjc Posted September 8, 2013 Report Share Posted September 8, 2013 And yet I am so HAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes Puppy, I know I should be more positive. Clearly the safe pair of hands won it...but it feels like, meh! 2020 was going to be the log jam of bidders...then the GFC happened. So wanted Istanbul to win...would've changed the whole focus of Turkey, even may have unified it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Rols Posted September 8, 2013 Report Share Posted September 8, 2013 IOC delighted with Tokyo decision New Zealand's International Olympic Committee members are delighted with the awarding of the 2020 Games to Tokyo. The Japanese capital has won the hosting rights for that year's Olympics after beating out Turkey's Istanbul in the final vote. Spain's Madrid was the first to drop out in the opening round of voting. Barry Maister is in Buenos Aires for the meeting and says it's a great result for New Zealand. "It's good for our athletes. They painted a picture of a very user-friendly environment. "The fact that it's in similar time zones, the fact that we've got very strong links with Japan in all sorts of ways, I think is helpful to us."A new sport will be voted on tomorrow morning while Jacques Rogge's presidential replacement will be decided on Wednesday.Yahoo Sport NZ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyelBrazil Posted September 8, 2013 Report Share Posted September 8, 2013 I wonder if the handover ceremony in 2016 will do a nod to the Liberdade District in Sao Paulo since it has the largest Japanese community outside Japan in the whole world. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberdade_(distrito_de_S%C3%A3o_Paulo) Well spotted, probably Sao Paulo will play a role in this CC like it did in PanAms with the fire fighters who worked in TAM accident few days before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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