2015年9月8日火曜日

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


Please tweet English version.
ツイートお願いします:日本
The National Route 6
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Torch Relay and Training Camps in Fukushima Proposed


聖火リレーを国道6号に 投稿者 suisinjya

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.




Read also …
Fukushima Foods for Tokyo Olympics Athletes – Endo Olympics Minister says




Toshiaki Endo Olympics minister attended a press conference held at the Japan Press Club in Tokyo on July 24, and expressed his idea to introduce cooking ingredients produced in Fukushima prefecture for consumption in the athletes' village of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. His aim is regarded as boosting efforts for recovering crippled economy of the prefecture after the nuclear disaster at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March, 2011. He also stated again his willingness to hold some of competitions in the areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake. ...

Asahi Shimbun …


FUKUSHIMA--The governor of Fukushima said June 17, 2014, that he wants the Olympic torch relay to come to the prefecture ahead of the 2020 Tokyo games so the world can see how far the region recovered from the nuclear crisis. …



May 13, 2014

The government intends to turn a national soccer training center located just 20 kilometers from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant into a practice facility for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, sports minister Hakubun Shimomura said May 12.




4 件のコメント: