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Off Topic => Sports Arena => Topic started by: FrankyH on September 07, 2013, 09:25:49 PM

Title: Tokyo host 2020 Games
Post by: FrankyH on September 07, 2013, 09:25:49 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/24002795
Title: Re: Tokyo host 2020 Games
Post by: Tokyo Sexwhale on September 07, 2013, 09:26:30 PM
Well I'll try my best...
Title: Re: Tokyo host 2020 Games
Post by: PGW on September 07, 2013, 10:03:33 PM
Istanbul should have got it...disappointed somewhat...no real reason other than Tokyo have had it in my lifetime.
Title: Re: Tokyo host 2020 Games
Post by: bertlambshank on September 07, 2013, 11:02:00 PM
Pee in this bottle we are testing for radiation.
Title: Re: Tokyo host 2020 Games
Post by: olaftab on September 07, 2013, 11:02:36 PM
Shame that world ( or  to be more accurate dodgy IOC delegates) have ignored the merits of a great city like Intanbul and opted for stale old dreadful metropolis like Tokyo. There is nothing progressive or aspirational in this decision.
Title: Re: Tokyo host 2020 Games
Post by: lovejoy on September 08, 2013, 06:08:45 AM
.....unlike the progressive decision to award Qatar the World Cup.
Title: Re: Tokyo host 2020 Games
Post by: olaftab on September 08, 2013, 08:18:59 AM
.....unlike the progressive decision to award Qatar the World Cup.
Sorry I don't get that? Olympics possible to Instanbul and farcical decision for 2022 World Cup have nothing in common and in any case two events are completely different.
Title: Re: Tokyo host 2020 Games
Post by: Chris Smith on September 08, 2013, 09:49:19 AM
Shame that world ( or  to be more accurate dodgy IOC delegates) have ignored the merits of a great city like Intanbul and opted for stale old dreadful metropolis like Tokyo. There is nothing progressive or aspirational in this decision.

I haven't seen anything of the details of the bids to comment on the merits of either, but the situation next door in Syria in recent months can't have helped.
Title: Re: Tokyo host 2020 Games
Post by: Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air on September 08, 2013, 01:15:52 PM
Along with the Tingha and Tucka Club, the 1964 Olympics were one of my first TV memories. Will they have the same music ?
Title: Re: Tokyo host 2020 Games
Post by: The Man With A Stick on September 08, 2013, 03:09:20 PM
Tokyo is a magnificent city with fantastic people and they fully deserve it.  Can't wait to see what they do with it.  Istanbul would have been good too, just glad that Madrid didn't get it.
Title: Re: Tokyo host 2020 Games
Post by: olaftab on September 08, 2013, 07:38:24 PM
I really don't know what's good about Tokyo but  yes people are fine even if have not apologised about  their nation's atrocities in Burma during the WWII.
Title: Re: Tokyo host 2020 Games
Post by: olaftab on September 08, 2013, 07:40:39 PM
Shame that world ( or  to be more accurate dodgy IOC delegates) have ignored the merits of a great city like Intanbul and opted for stale old dreadful metropolis like Tokyo. There is nothing progressive or aspirational in this decision.

I haven't seen anything of the details of the bids to comment on the merits of either, but the situation next door in Syria in recent months can't have helped.
That could be a factor however I doubt if your average IOC delegate cares much about that and in any case we may have peace in the world in 7 years time!
Title: Re: Tokyo host 2020 Games
Post by: lovejoy on September 08, 2013, 09:08:49 PM
The Olympics slogan will probably be "Tokyo radiation free since 2017" (c) Danny Baker.
Title: Re: Tokyo host 2020 Games
Post by: TonyD on September 10, 2013, 04:37:28 PM
Tokyo is a magnificent city with fantastic people and they fully deserve it.  Can't wait to see what they do with it.  Istanbul would have been good too, just glad that Madrid didn't get it.
Tokyo is a concrete hell hole of a place that makes Blade Runner look homely.
Title: Re: Tokyo host 2020 Games
Post by: Colhint on September 11, 2013, 02:29:11 PM
Along with the Tingha and Tucka Club, the 1964 Olympics were one of my first TV memories. Will they have the same music ?

gooood morning Tokyo

waaa wa waaa we wa wa waa

That wasn't Tingha and Tucker by the way
Title: Re: Tokyo host 2020 Games
Post by: ADVILLAFAN on September 11, 2013, 02:58:35 PM
I think Turkey and Russia are the 2 nations more than any others that keep being found to have cheated by giving their athletes drugs, so nice that a country that has never been found guilty of doping gets the Olympics.
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