Hatoyama vs. Obama : Who will get the 2016 Olympic games?
As an introduction to their report on how both Yukio Hatoyama and Barack Obama will be attending Friday’s IOC meeting to decide the host city for the 2016 Olympics, the NTV graphics team added some exciting flames to week-old footage of the two leaders:
Tokyo bid chief Ichiro Kono has welcomed the competition.
More Olympic bid news
The AFP has run an article focusing on how Japan’s Olympic bid team lacks emotional punch:
“It is generally said that Japanese people lack emotion,” said Takeda, who represented Japan in show-jumping at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics.
“Well we do (have emotions). We have them in our own style and we will make them felt.”
Meanwhile, the official 2016 Tokyo Olympics site is busy pumping out propaganda news articles and dull PR blog posts in favor of its bid. A recent article boasts that 100 million of Japan’s 127 million citizens support Tokyo’s Olympic bid, a dubious claim when compared to the results of public opinion polls taken only a few months ago:
In public opinion surveys conducted in early July by two major national papers, the Yomiuri Shimbun and the Asahi Shimbun, 55% of respondents support Tokyo hosting the Games in 2016. In a poll conducted last week by the Sankei Shimbun newspaper and FNN television network, support improved to 63.6% from 58.3% in February.
[via JapanSoc]
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