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Inose pitches Tokyo '20 Games bid

With candidacy now in IOC's hands, final push starts to get Olympics

Race to the finish: Backers of the effort to bring the 2020 Olympics to Tokyo, including Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose (second from left), wheelchair athlete Wakako Tsuchida, a Paralympics gold medalist, and Saori Yoshida, a three-time Olympic gold medalist in freestyle wrestling, show their resolve Tuesday at a press conference in Tokyo. | KAZUAKI NAGATA

By Kazuaki Nagata
Staff Writer

Jan 9, 2013

With the final round of the bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics kicking off, top politicians and athletes vowed Tuesday to win the competition to bring the games to Tokyo.

"The bid is now entering its key stage," Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose told reporters at City Hall.

On Monday, ambassadors for Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Olympics, including Homare Sawa, a 2012 Olympics silver medalist soccer player, presented the capital's candidature file to the International Olympic Committee in Switzerland.

Inose pitches Tokyo '20 Games bid

With candidacy now in IOC's hands, final push starts to get Olympics

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