POSTED: January 23rd 2012
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Tokyo 2020: Takeda reveals new poll support of 80 million people for the Olympic bid
LAURA WALDEN / Sports Features Communications
LAUSANNE: An official survey, conducted by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, was carried out all over Japan and 65.7 percent of respondents expressed positive support for the Games.
The survey was carried out online and via telephone between 7-9 January, and results were compiled from answers received by some 4,000 respondents from across Japan.
President of the Tokyo 2020 bid and the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) Tsunekazu Takeda said in a statement:
“These results indicate that some 80 million people across the whole of Japan are behind our bid.
“This is wonderful news for Tokyo 2020, and will serve as a further motivation for us to bring the Games to Tokyo.”
“Our bid for the 2020 Games has only been underway for a few short months, and we have not yet made public the details of our plans. Despite this, however, we have still managed to garner a 65.7% support rate for the bid.
“Since Tokyo 2020 was established in September last year, the national government, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, both Houses of the Japanese Diet, and the political, business and sporting communities have declared their full support for our efforts.
"And now this extremely encouraging news regarding domestic support rates has been the icing on the cake.
“We are currently finalising the details of our Applicant File, which must be submitted to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) by 15 February We will, of course, include the recent domestic support rate figures in the file, and I am sure that this will send a clear message to the IOC that the whole of Japan is united in its efforts to ensure that Tokyo’s bid for the 2020 Games is successful.
"We plan to publicly release the details of our bid once our file has been submitted to the IOC, and I am certain that this will lead to a further rise in the domestic support rate.”
Tokyo is running against Baku, Doha, Istanbul, Madrid, and Rome to host the 2020 summer Games. Madrid and the Japanese capitol both ran in the 2016 race that had Rio de Janeiro taking home the Games for the first South American Olympics.
Keywords · Tokyo 2020 · Tsunekazu Takeda · Japanese Olympic Committee
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