2020 Japan Olympics

[wagyl]

What with the choice of that logo, and the fun Yasser Arafat keffiyeh jokes, and the similarity to the Munich 1972 logo, maybe the Illuminati which controls all committees in the background is foreshadowing their plans?

[Takechanpoo]

and the similarity to the Munich 1972 logo,

you already are suffering from early symptom of alzheimer? i hope not

[wagyl]

No. It is not early. I'm old enough to remember Munich, after all.

[Mike Oxlong]

Talk about really nailing it down. It'll be inside, or perhaps outside, the stadium.

Report prioritizes placing Tokyo 2020 Olympic cauldron on field or outside stadium

The cauldron for the Olympic flame at the new national stadium being built for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games could be set up either on a field in the stadium or outside it, a government report indicates.

A government working team has been considering where the Olympic cauldron could be set up, listing the merits and demerits of four possible locations -- the field, the stands, the roof and outside the stadium. A working team report compiled on April 28 placed priority on the first and last options. A final decision on the place and design of the cauldron will be made at least 18 months before the start of the games.

The games' organizing committee is poised to decide on an artistic director as early as next summer and consider the opening ceremony performance, but as the lighting of the Olympic flame is a main feature of the ceremony, the minister in charge of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, Toshiaki Endo, said that officials have not gone beyond basic concepts, to avoid fixing the performance into a set framework.

The working team report says that if the Olympic flame were placed in the stands, this would reduce the stadium's planned capacity of 68,000 seats, and it would make it harder to secure the necessary number of seats for the opening ceremony. It therefore concludes that this option has some "issues requiring careful consideration." If the cauldron were placed on the roof, meanwhile, 50 to 70 percent of people at the stadium wouldn't be able to see it, and there would be difficulties with the structure and construction period. The report says the roof option presents the greatest number of issues. The field option and the choice to place the cauldron outside the stadium present the fewest technical restrictions, it says.

The International Olympic Committee states that the Olympic cauldron should be set up in a place that can be seen by all spectators in the stadium at the opening ceremony, and that it can be seen by people outside the stadium during the games. The field option fulfills the first condition, but there remains criticism that it would obstruct viewing after the opening ceremony. This hints that the cauldron could be placed outside the stadium while the games are in progress.

The position of the Olympic cauldron was not considered in the construction design for the new stadium, so the government set up a working team in March to probe the issue.

http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/201 ... na/004000c

[Russell]

So, how was the problem of flame placement solved in previous Games?

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

So, how was the problem of flame placement solved in previous Games?

At the moment, I hope it's right beneath the arse of the Rio organizers because apparently they need to get a move on to have things built before the event starts in a few months.

[Coligny]

So, how was the problem of flame placement solved in previous Games?

It was factored into the original design instead of being an "oh shit !..." moment...

[Taro Toporific]

Talk about really nailing it down. It'll be inside, or perhaps outside, the stadium.

There seems to have been an inside-and-outside Olympic Cauldron several times before. That is, the Cauldron is lit the middle on the Olympic field for the opening ceremony and then moved outside during the games. Most recently at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the cauldron was not visible to the public outside the stadium and monitors were placed throughout the Olympic Park showing the public live footage of the flame.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_flame#Cauldron

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Vancouver Olympic Cauldron


Of course, if the shit-for-brains had just remodeled the the old 1964 stadium, this all would have not been a problem.

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reused 1964 Olympic Cauldron

[Mike Oxlong]

Talk about really nailing it down. It'll be inside, or perhaps outside, the stadium.

There seems to have been an inside-and-outside Olympic Cauldron several times before. That is, the Cauldron is lit the middle on the Olympic field for the opening ceremony and then moved outside during the games. Most recently at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the cauldron was not visible to the public outside the stadium and monitors were placed throughout the Olympic Park showing the public live footage of the flame.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_flame#Cauldron

Vancouver-Oympic-Cauldron.jpg

Vancouver Olympic Cauldron


Of course, if the shit-for-brains had just remodeled the the old 1964 stadium, this all would have not been a problem.

1964-reused-Caldron.JPG

reused 1964 Olympic Cauldron

That's cool, and it would seem that those instances were probably planned out at the design stage. Has there been another case of the architects not even considering a cauldron in the design phase (forgetting, not knowing the stadium required one, not knowing what a cauldron is, not knowing history, whatever)?

[Takechanpoo]

Tokoros one is too simple and tasteless at a first glance. but taking a carefully looking at, you will find its a well elaborated thought‐out design.

http://www.mag2.com/p/news/183569/2

[Taro Toporific]

Tokyo Olympics: €1.3m payment to secret account raises questions over 2020 Games
• Alleged payment believed to be under scrutiny by French police
• Pressure on IOC to investigate links between Diack regime and Olympic bids
• Black Tidings explained: the account at the heart of the IAAF scandal.
The Guardian | 11 May 2016 15.58 BST
A seven-figure payment from the successful Tokyo Olympic bid team to a notorious account linked to the son of the disgraced former world athletics chief Lamine Diack was apparently made during the race to host the 2020 Games, the Guardian has learned.
The alleged payment of around €1.3m (£1.03m), now believed to be under scrutiny by French police, will increase pressure on the International Olympic Committee to investigate properly links between Diack’s regime and the bidding race for its flagship event. It could also raise serious questions over Tokyo’s winning bid, awarded in 2013.
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[Russell]

:keyboardcoffee:

Tokyo Olympics: €1.3m payment to secret account raises questions over 2020 Games
• Alleged payment believed to be under scrutiny by French police
• Pressure on IOC to investigate links between Diack regime and Olympic bids
• Black Tidings explained: the account at the heart of the IAAF scandal.
The Guardian | 11 May 2016 15.58 BST
A seven-figure payment from the successful Tokyo Olympic bid team to a notorious account linked to the son of the disgraced former world athletics chief Lamine Diack was apparently made during the race to host the 2020 Games, the Guardian has learned.
The alleged payment of around €1.3m (£1.03m), now believed to be under scrutiny by French police, will increase pressure on the International Olympic Committee to investigate properly links between Diack’s regime and the bidding race for its flagship event. It could also raise serious questions over Tokyo’s winning bid, awarded in 2013.
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Time to take the Olympics away from Tokyo 2020...

[legion]

Look on the bright side, at least they managed to bribe the right guy

[Russell]

Look on the bright side, at least they managed to bribe the right guy

That's not so difficult if you bribe them all...

[Coligny]

It's ok, with their new approach of blowing all the shit up even if they only pack 9mm guns the investigation is not going to go anywhere except up in smoke...

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[yanpa]

So where does Molenbeek come into this?

[Coligny]

So where does Molenbeek come into this?

You want an answer with shitfaced drunk logic or the usual "there's fucking dragons in my kitchen" logic...
(The picture is from Seine Saint Denis btw not Belgihadstan)

[dimwit]

So where does Molenbeek come into this?

It doesn't. But you are not paying enough attention to him. Clogme needs attention.

[Coligny]

So where does Molenbeek come into this?

It doesn't. But you are not paying enough attention to him. Clogme needs attention.

somebody is getting djealous...

[Russell]

London in the frame to host 2020 Olympics as Japan bid probed over secret payments

The head of the Istanbul 2020 Olympic bid that lost out to Tokyo has said that the 2020 Games may have to be staged in London if a French criminal investigation concludes that the Japanese made illegal payments to the company at the centre of the athletics corruption scandal.

[...]

Yalcin Aksoy, the deputy general secretary of the Turkish Olympic Committee who served as the general director of the Istanbul Olympic Bidding Committee, stressed that the allegations are so far unproven.

But he did recognise the seriousness of the investigation and said if Tokyo did end up being stripped of the Games it would have to be handed back to London, host of the 2012 Games and therefore already in possession of the venues to host another Olympics, because it would be too late for Istanbul or Madrid to build the venues.

‘The only city that could do it, if it is the case (that Tokyo has made these payments), would be to take it to London’ Aksoy told Sportsmail. ‘I hope it doesn’t come to that.

‘But it’s the right of the IOC I would think. I’m sure they will make the right decision about what to do, if it is the case that they (Tokyo) are the ones who transferred the money.’

Aksoy said the Turkish Olympic Committee will wait for the French to conclude the investigation before taking any action of their own.

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This is not the first time the Tokyo bid has been linked to Lamine Diack and possible corruption in their bid to secure the 2020 Olympics.

In January the IOC said it was ready to examine allegations of possible bribery in the bidding for the 2020 Olympics after a footnote to the World Anti-Doping Agency’s independent commission report had indicated that Lamine Diack was prepared to sell his vote in the 2020 bidding contest in exchange for sponsorship of IAAF events. The report suggested that Diack, then an IOC member, had dropped his support for Istanbul because the Turkish city refused to pay, opting to back Tokyo after the Japanese did pay an alleged amount of ‘$5million’ in sponsorship money.

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Japan to question officials involved in Tokyo's 2020 Olympic bid

Japan on Friday said it would question officials involved in Tokyo’s successful 2020 Olympics bid over a multi-million dollar payment which is being probed by French investigators.

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“We will further work to confirm facts,” top Japanese government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told a regular press conference, citing the French probe.

[...]

Olympic Minister Toshiaki Endo said the government’s Sports Agency will speak to officials from the Tokyo metropolitan government and the Japanese Olympic Committee.

However, Suga and Endo both said they were confident that no wrongdoing occurred, based on previous declarations by officials.

“I don’t believe that such (corruption) took place,” Endo told reporters, adding that he will be closely watching the outcome of the Japanese probe.

Suga said the government had already received a report that the bid committee did not make such a payment after suspicions first emerged in January following a report by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

While Japanese officials strongly deny any wrongdoing by the Tokyo bid, the Asahi Shimbun daily quoted “several bid committee members” as saying there was a team outside the formal bid committee that conducted “unknown” activities.

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I suspect they'll try to pin it on a forunner that was so banal as trying to get the Olympics to Tokyo...

[kurogane]

Just cancelling them outright would be so cool. I would feel for the athletes, and even the drooling, bobble headed plebs that like Olympics, but it might be the shock treatment needed to fix this swampified mess.

[Grumpy Gramps]

Yep, killem!

[Russell]

Latest news is that they now say those millions of dollars were "consultancy fees"...

[yanpa]

But he did recognise the seriousness of the investigation and said if Tokyo did end up being stripped of the Games it would have to be handed back to London, host of the 2012 Games and therefore already in possession of the venues to host another Olympics, because it would be too late for Istanbul or Madrid to build the venues.

Good thing London keeps all those venues mothballed ready to re-use...

[Coligny]

Better than Sarajevo anyway...

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dis' gunna hurtz...

[Samurai_Jerk]

One of the leaders of Tokyo's winning bid for the 2020 Olympics has told the Japanese parliament that he cannot reveal the details of a contract with a Singapore firm that has enmeshed the bid in an investigation into possible bribery

One of the leaders of Tokyo's winning bid for the 2020 Olympics told the Japanese parliament Tuesday that he cannot reveal the details of a contract with a Singapore firm that has enmeshed the bid in a French bribery investigation.

"We looked into the content of this contract but this is a confidential matter," Tsunekazu Takeda said under questioning from lawmakers. "So, I understand that I am not allowed to unveil the content without gaining approval from the counterpart."

French prosecutors have said that 2.8 million Singapore dollars ($2 million) was apparently transferred from Japan to the Singapore account of a company called Black Tidings.

The account holder, Ian Tan Tong Han, has been closely tied to the son of former IAAF President Lamine Diack, who is facing corruption charges.

Diack, once one of the most influential men in sports, was a member of the International Olympic Committee. He is under investigation in France, barred from leaving the country while the probe continues.

Black Tidings really is a great name for a shell company set up to receive bribes.

[Coligny]

Yea, try that shit in France...

The whole the law override contracts thing might object to the chimps bullshit...

[matsuki]

This will not end well...and as shitty as this whole circus is, I appreciate how the heat from the Olympic torch has got the place movin' and shakin' on long overdue issues.

[legion]

"We looked into the content of this contract but this is a confidential matter," Tsunekazu Takeda said under questioning from lawmakers. "So, I understand that I am not allowed to unveil the content without gaining approval from the counterpart."

Sad state of affairs when you can't impart confidential information to your own government's parliamentary committee. You'd almost think they were corrupt to the core.

[yanpa]

This will not end well...and as shitty as this whole circus is, I appreciate how the heat from the Olympic torch has got the place movin' and shakin' on long overdue issues.

I suspect it will be more of a marathon than a sprint, but the investigators are hopefully on track to field some awkward questions despite the many hurdles they may face.

Over to you, Kurogane.