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===Bid details===
===Bid details===
Tokyo is touting "the most compact and efficient Olympic Games ever" with a dramatic setting on the waterfront. Previously an area used primarily for industry and shipping, Tokyo will have a chance to redevelop a rundown area (as [[London]] and [[Barcelona]] did in previous hostings), revitalizing the waterfront with housing, retail, and entertainment venues, some from land reclaimed from Tokyo Bay. The landfill will be a forest island for use as the site of equestrian, canoeing and other sporting events, named "Umi no Mori" or "Forest on the Sea".<ref name=Eco>{{citeweb|url=http://www.gamesbids.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=1&id=1202402953|title=Tokyo Promotes Eco-Friendly Games|publisher=GamesBids|accessdate=2008-03-13}}</ref> The motto is "Uniting Our Worlds" in English, and {{Nihongo|"It's Japan, So It Can Do It. New Olympics!"|日本だから、できる。あたらしいオリンピック!|Nihon dakara Dekiru. Atarashii Olympic!}} in Japanese.
Tokyo is touting "the most compact and efficient Olympic Games ever" with a dramatic setting on the waterfront. Previously an area used primarily for industry and shipping, Tokyo will have a chance to redevelop a rundown area (as [[London]] and [[Barcelona]] did in previous hostings), revitalizing the waterfront with housing, retail, and entertainment venues, some from land reclaimed from Tokyo Bay. The landfill will be a forest island for use as the site of equestrian, canoeing and other sporting events, named "Umi no Mori" or "Forest on the Sea".<ref name=Eco>{{citeweb|url=http://www.gamesbids.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=1&id=1202402953|title=Tokyo Promotes Eco-Friendly Games|publisher=GamesBids|accessdate=2008-03-13}}</ref> The motto is "Uniting Our Worlds" in English, and {{Nihongo|"It's Japan, so we can do it. The new Olympics!"|日本だから、できる。あたらしいオリンピック!|Nihon dakara Dekiru. Atarashii Olympic!}} in Japanese.


[[Image:Skyscrapers of Shinjuku 2009 January.jpg|right|thumb|Tokyo Skyline with [[Mount Fuji]] in the background]]
[[Image:Skyscrapers of Shinjuku 2009 January.jpg|right|thumb|Tokyo Skyline with [[Mount Fuji]] in the background]]

Revision as of 06:00, 30 September 2009

Bids for the
2016 (2016) Summer Olympics
Overview
Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Tokyo 2016 Summer Olympics bid logo.
Tokyo 2016 Summer Olympics bid slogan.

Shortlist: Chicago · Madrid · Rio de Janeiro · Tokyo
Details
CityTokyo, Japan
NOCJapanese Olympic Committee (JOC)
Evaluation
IOC score8.3
Previous Games hosted
1964 Summer Olympics

The Tokyo bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics is the attempt by Tokyo, the capital of Japan to be chosen by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. The city previously held the 1964 Summer Olympics. Tokyo was one of the bidders listed on the short list of candidates announced on June 4, 2008. The winning bid will be announced on October 2, 2009.[1] Tokyo's competitors are Chicago (United States), Madrid (Spain), and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). If Tokyo wins the bid, the games will be held July 29 to August 14, and the Paralympics will be held August 31 to September 11.

Tokyo's bid

Posters at the lobby of the Edo-Tokyo Museum in Ryōgoku promoting the bid

City selection

The Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) set a deadline of June 30, 2006, for cities to submit bids. It decided on August 30, 2006, that Tokyo would be the country's candidate for 2016. The other major internal candidate from Japan was the western city of Fukuoka on the island of Kyūshū.[2] Reportedly, Osaka (2008 Summer Olympics bid), Sapporo (which held the 1972 Winter Olympics), and Nagoya (1988 Summer Olympics bid) also expressed interest in bidding.[3]

Bid details

Tokyo is touting "the most compact and efficient Olympic Games ever" with a dramatic setting on the waterfront. Previously an area used primarily for industry and shipping, Tokyo will have a chance to redevelop a rundown area (as London and Barcelona did in previous hostings), revitalizing the waterfront with housing, retail, and entertainment venues, some from land reclaimed from Tokyo Bay. The landfill will be a forest island for use as the site of equestrian, canoeing and other sporting events, named "Umi no Mori" or "Forest on the Sea".[4] The motto is "Uniting Our Worlds" in English, and "It's Japan, so we can do it. The new Olympics!" (日本だから、できる。あたらしいオリンピック!, Nihon dakara Dekiru. Atarashii Olympic!) in Japanese.

Tokyo Skyline with Mount Fuji in the background

As an "Alpha+" global city, Tokyo is one of the world's largest and most interconnected cities.[5] In addition to the existing urban rail network, already the world's most extensive,[6] three ring roads are currently being built around the city to help reduce congestion problems. Tokyo has also been consistent in funding public transport, a strength compared to other bid cities.[7] With over 124,000 hotel rooms nearby, ample accommodations is a highlighted strength of Tokyo's bid.[8]

The public relations firm of Weber Shandwick Worldwide has been retained by the Tokyo 2016 Bid Committee to develop public relations campaigns and global support. Weber Shandwick's track record includes working on previous bids for the winning campaigns of Sydney in 2000, Turin in 2006, Beijing in 2008, and Sochi in 2014.[9]

The bid follows the success of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, which Japan co-hosted with South Korea. In addition to Tokyo's hosting of the 1964 Summer Olympics, Japan also has past Olympic experience as the 1972 Winter Games in Sapporo, and the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano.

Venues

The Olympic park at the city center should allow the Olympic experience to "permeate the city without compromising Olympic operations".[8] A new stadium (designed by Tadao Ando) will be built to seat 100,000, and later pared back to 80,000 to leave a desired "legacy building". The new Olympic Village will be built containing five high-rise buildings, each representing one of the Olympic Rings.[7] Primarily lying in two tight clusters, there will be 31 planned venues. Of these, 21 already exist and the Japanese will need to build ten new venues, including five that will be temporary for Games use only.[8] They will be refurbishing many venues from its 1964 Summer Olympic Games, which are located within just 20 minutes of the waterfront.[10] At first, the planned Media Center was to be located within ten minutes of the Ginza, on the site of the current Tsukiji fish market, but soil pollution has occurred around the newly planned Toyosu fish market, so the master plan was separated from the discussion of the fish market's replacement, and the Media Center has been changed to Tokyo Big Sight. Some of chemical substances remain at the Toyosu fish market, especially the amount of benzene detected, about 43,000 times the environment standard as reported in 2008.[11]

Yoyogi National Gymnasium, built for the 1964 Summer Olympics

Several existing and proposed facilities would host events at the 2016 Olympics.[12] Among them are the following:

The master plan does not show its venues for either golf or rugby, however there are the golf course, Wakasu Golf Links, near Wakasu Olympic Marina (planned; for sailing) and Umi no Mori (Sea Forest) venues. Taizō Kawada, a member on the board of the Japan Golf Association (JGA), expected on a website of a golf magazine, the Weekly Golf Digest, that the venue should become this link course.[13]

Funding

The expenses for the bid are estimated at between 5.5 and 7 billion yen[7] (approximately US$50 million). Funding will come from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to cover 1.5 billion for the preparations, and the remaining funds will come from the private sector. The plan gives evidence of a national financial guarantee to cover any cost over runs and some infrastructure projects. The bid budget is set at US $48 million jointly funded by private and public sources. This is in line with most other bids.[8] Estimated revenue is set at $1.557 billion.[8]

Nippon Budokan martial arts pavilion built for the 1964 Games

Green games

Tokyo is also touting its effort to design green games that coexist in harmony with the natural environment. They will utilize five temporary structures and measures for reducing CO2 emissions and energy consumption. For example, the Olympic village, built in the Ariake area bordering Tokyo Bay, would feature an array of eco-friendly systems such as solar and renewable energy, and aim for total waste recycling. After the Games, they would be converted to rental apartments and condominiums in a greenery-rich area.[4][7]

The Yumenoshima landfill will be an 88-hectare island in Tokyo Bay with compost made from fallen leaves and twigs gathered in the public parks and streets of Tokyo. The trash landfill will be transformed into a green forest where 480,000 trees will be planted, in addition to the sports venues located on the island.[4] In addition, Tokyo plans to promote the use of more low-emissions buses and other vehicles in order to reduce in traffic congestion and help curb emissions from carbon dioxide.[4][14]

The logo of the Tokyo bid takes the form of a traditional Japanese knot known as musubi. The five Olympic colors are used in the decorative knot; the musubi has long been utilized in Japan to signify blessings during times of celebration.[15]

Outlook

A display advertising the Olympic bid at Shinjuku Station in October 2008

Tokyo's bid was promoted to the Candidate City shortlist in June 2008.[1] Despite Tokyo's many strengths, a "been there, done that" attitude may pervade as the Beijing Games will have been held in the region eight years before, as well as Tokyo's own previous hosting in 1964.[16] However, on numerous occasions the Olympics have been held eight years apart on the same continent.

From 72% in March 2008,[17] Tokyo local support fell to 56% in May 2009,[18] the lowest support among the candidate cities. However, other polls conducted in early 2009 by some of the largest local publishers showed more than 70% support of the plan.[19] Tokyo had worked hard to increase the popularity of its bid,[20] even promoting the games on the Tokyo Tower and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building by displaying "Tokyo" and "2016" in the Olympic colors.[21]

In the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly and the Diet of Japan, several left-wing and progressive parties show clearly on opposition for this bid; the Japan Communist Party (JCP), the Tokyo Seikatsusha Network (TSN) and the Social Democratic Party (SDPJ)[22] The JCP explained that because of the games, many highway lines, especially the Tokyo Gaikan Expressway will be constructed with huge costs, more than is allocated to other policies: welfare, labor, education and so on.[23] The power party in the national government after September 2009, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), stands on a more prudent position than the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) for this master plan and the method of bid movement, under the leadership of the governor, Shintarō Ishihara; Ishihara was the advocate for this bid in 2006. However, the DPJ voted for the resolutions which support this bid, both in the Diet and the Assembly.

It has been mentioned that Pyeongchang's failure to procure the 2014 Winter Olympics may sway some IOC voters to give sympathy votes to the Japanese for 2016.[citation needed]

Including some foreigners, many players and entertainers support and take comments on the official website of the Tokyo bid committee. For example, Kōsuke Kitajima, the gold medalist for the men's 100m and 200m breaststroke at both the Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 games, became the reader of the "2016 Tokyo Bid Support Party" and has made speeches on public streets. Three other athletes expressed their appeals on the free magazine 2016, which is available on many railway stations and public offices in Tokyo; Koji Murofushi, the winner of the men's hammer throw in Athens 2004, Mara Yamauchi, a British long distance track and field woman athlete, and Mayumi Narita who holds 15 gold medals in three Paralympics with the women's swimming. In its PR video, French-Japanese TV announcer Christel Takigawa introduced the charm of Tokyo in French, and Riyo Mori, the Miss Universe 2007 winner, spoke of that in English. Naoko Takahashi, the champion in Sydney 2000 and the former world record holder in the women's marathon, is the project reader of a roughly 10,000km virtual ekiden (long distance relay) from Tokyo to Copenhagen, the venue of the IOC section for determining the host city on October 2, 2009. The Tokyo Marathon is one of the main publicity events for this bid.

Notes and references

  1. ^ a b "Chicago Makes 2016 Olympics Shortlist". CBS. 2008-06-04. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
  2. ^ "Japan chooses Tokyo for 2016 bid". BBC Sport. 2006-08-30. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
  3. ^ "Tokyo Joins 2016 Race". BBC. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
  4. ^ a b c d "Tokyo Promotes Eco-Friendly Games". GamesBids. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
  5. ^ "The World According to GaWC 2008". Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Retrieved 2009-08-25.
  6. ^ "Tokyo-Yokohama Suburban Rail Summary (Commuter Rail, Regional Rail)" (PDF). The Public Purpose. 2003. Retrieved 2009-08-25. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  7. ^ a b c d "Tokyo takes Chicago tack". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
  8. ^ a b c d e "Tokyo 2016 Releases Olympic Bid Questionnaire Response". GamesBids. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
  9. ^ "Weber Shandwick To Support Tokyo 2016". GamesBids. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
  10. ^ "Tokyo hoping compact bid will win IOC vote". Yahoo!. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
  11. ^ "豊洲の土壌汚染問題　五輪プレスセンター建設にも影響" (in Japanese). Sankei Shimbun. 2008-05-20. Retrieved 2009-09-12. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  12. ^ "Venue Plan - Olympic - Tokyo 2016 Bid Committee". Tokyo 2016 Bid Committee. Retrieved 2009-05-02.
  13. ^ "GDO Back 9" (in Japanese). Gold Digest Online. Retrieved 2009-09-11.
  14. ^ "Tokyo Committed to Carbon-Minus Games". Tokyo 2016 Bid Committee. 2009-03-05. Retrieved 2009-03-20.
  15. ^ "Tokyo 2016 Unveil Highly Symbolic Logo". Tokyo 2016 Bid Committee. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
  16. ^ Hersh, Phillip (2007-09-13), "Chicago in 8-City Race for Olympics", Chicago Tribune
  17. ^ "Ninety Two Million Citizens Support Tokyo 2016 Bid". GamesBids. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
  18. ^ "Tokyo bid suffers in IOC support poll of residents". Guardian.co.uk. 2009-05-02. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
  19. ^ "Support Continues to Rise Above 70% in Latest Polls" (in Japanese). Yomiuri.co.jp. 2009-05-02. Retrieved 2009-08-01.
  20. ^ "Poll Shows Millions In Japan Aware Of Tokyo 2016 Bid". GamesBids. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
  21. ^ "Landmarks Promote Tokyo 2016 Bid". GamesBids. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
  22. ^ TSN is a local party, and it holds relationship with DPJ and SDPJ; SDPJ has no seats in the Assembly.
  23. ^ "オリンピックの東京招致になぜ反対?" (in Japanese). Shimbun Akahata. 2009-03-18. Retrieved 2009-09-12. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)

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