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Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Torch Relay and Training Camps in Fukushima Proposed

【東京オリンピック】聖火リレーと選手団合宿の福島県内誘致を提案

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0:00	Caster: Yuhei Satoh, the (ex) governor of Fukushima, met Yoshiro Mori, the chairman of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (OCOG) today, and requested him to put the National Route 6 along the Pacific coast in the course of Olympic torch relay.
0:13	Mori, the chairman and also former prime minister, visited the governor Satoh in his office.
0:25	Mori: I would like to ask you to let us make use of people’s power of disaster affected 3 prefectures in the Tohoku district to promote our Olympic Movement.
0:34	Caster: As a part of the Olympic Games to be held in 2020, reconstruction support measures such as the torch relay or pre-training camp in the affected areas have been planned.
0:43	The governor Satoh said that he wants the Olympic torch relay to come to the Pacific coast areas of the prefecture ahead of the 2020 Tokyo games so the world can see how far the region recovered from the nuclear crisis.
0:54	And then, they signed a joint statement to make sure that both parties will promote cooperation towards the Olympic Games.
1:03	The chairman Mori also noted about setting training camps for international athletes in Fukushima that there shall be no reputational damage in that they refrain from coming to Fukushima.
1:14	Mori: Even though athletes from abroad don’t want to come here, the Japanese teams should come here without hesitation to have training camps in Fukushima. It should be a saving spirit of Rugby football games to play at the risk of players’ own risks.

1:27	Caster: The chairman Mori revealed his idea to attract actively training camps of Japanese teams to Fukushima.

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【東京オリンピック】 聖火リレーと選手団合宿の福島県内誘致を提案

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