
Per part meva doncs, molt content...crec que la ciutat s'ho mereix, no sé si estaré per Tokyo el 2020 però si no, almenys ara ja tindré una bona excusa per tornar-hi!! Gambare Nippon!
Today we woke up with a very good news in Japan! As you all probably know already, this morning for us, Tokyo was elected as the host city of the 2020 Olympic Games!!! Defeating Madrid and Istanbul, Tokyo will host its second summer Olympic Games after 1964, a games that were key in the economic, urbanistic and technologic development of the city and Japan. For what I read and heard from others, those games had a similar impact to our beloved Barcelona'92 (here quite often when you say you are from Barcelona, people would still answer "aah yes...the Olympics"). Consider that the so-called Shinkansen (bullet train) entered in circulation in 1964 to connect Tokyo and Kyoto-Osaka during the games. Similar things in Tokyo, where many infrastructures were built to support the event, from public transport (famous train line, Monorail, that connects downtown area with Haneda airport) to amazing buildings that became part of today's Tokyo landscape and will be also used as venue of the 2020 games (the famous Olympic stadium of Yoyogi). Altogether it resulted in a before and after of those Olympic Games, and with this mindset Tokyo submitted again its application for the 2020 ones. Here everyone's hope is that this games will represent a turning point to a country where the economy doesn't look good since long time ago and on top the disaster earthquake-tsunami-nuclear crisis didn't help to improve it. Actually this subject was the main point of discussion and probably the weakest point of the candidacy...personally I think is tough to give a judgement, on one hand we live in a complete normal environment, particularly in Tokyo, where very fee seem concerned with the subject. On the other hand it is clear that the situation is not solved or even under control, so concerns are justified, but in case recently the government approved a package of measures of 47¥ billion with the aim to resolve them. Regardless of the real situation what is clear is that this election will only put more international pressure to the government to do things, and do it well. So finally besides this issue Tokyo gained the bid, maybe it was the effect of special ambassadors such as Doraemon :)...or maybe because there defend was more emotional (see below promotional video), who knows... however with no aim to enter in a comparison of applications, what I can tell you is that this city has been completely thrown into this project with great institutional support from politicians, athletes and many others, and had an application that looks great, organizing the city in two areas, one closer to city center where they will use venues from the previous Olympics and a new area around the Bay Area (see below video for further info). Obviously in the next coming years several new venues will be built, among them I'd highlight the new Olympic stadium in Sendagaya, with a project from the famous architect Zaha Hadid which looks awesome (see pictures below).
For me thus, I think the city deserved it and I'm very happy for it, don't know if I will be still around in 2020 but at least now I'll have a good excuse to come back! Ganbate Nippon!
Algunes fotos del projecte guanyador del nou estadi olímpic / Some pics of the winning project of the new Olympic stadium
Vídeo promocional de la candidatura / Promotional video of the application
Vídeo introduint les instal.lacions / Video introducing the venues of the Olympics
super noticia para Japon! me alegro mucho, se lo merecen :=)
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