There are no definitive guidelines in place, no simple slogans summarizing how individuals and groups should support or oppose an Olympic bid. Of course, it's up to them.

Longtime Japan resident Jeff McNeill and his son, Mark, possess the enthusiasm that many within Japan's international community have for Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Mark McNeill, an 11th-grader at The American School in Japan, spearheaded the school's student council project to collect signatures from high school students, their names symbolic of their backing of the bid.