Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was the country’s central figure in landing the 2020 Olympics for Tokyo.
FILE - Then Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, smiles next to the President of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge, left, as Tokyo 2020 Olympic Bid Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda, right, looks on after signing the Host City Contract for the 2020 Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013. Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was the countrys central figure in landing the 2020 Olympics for Tokyo.
As a video was shown with Abe portrayed running late for the handover ceremony, the Japanese prime minister suddenly popped up on stage in Rio — to loud applause — He doffed his red cap to the crowd, and there could be no mistake where the Games were going next. The lettering on his red cap spelled it out: Tokyo.giving a campaign speech in the western Japanese city of Nara.
Ever a showman, Abe pushed for the Tokyo Games from the start and then helped keep them on track after being postponed for a year by the COVID-19 pandemic.He was in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2013, seated in the front row of a hotel ballroom when then-IOC President Jacques Rogge opened an envelope to reveal Tokyo as host of the 2020 Games.
Abe and Japan famously campaigned for those Games under the motto “a safe pair of hands." This was at a time when Sochi, Russia, and Rio de Janeiro were the focal point of relentless criticism for their preparations; Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics and Rio for the 2016 Summer Games.And it was Abe who, in a closing speech to the International Olympic Committee before the vote in Buenos Aires,However, it wasn't so.
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