Last weekend, June 22, the women’s marathon champion of the 2000 Olympics, Naoko Takahashi, led a relay race in support of the Tokyo 2016 bid to host the games.
Running with Takahashi were other famous faces including Kenji Kimihara, who won a silver medal at the Mexico games in 1968 and Yasutaro Matsuki, the former international [...]
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Relay Race Led by Naoko Takahashi
June 27th, 2009 1 Comment
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Top Ten on Tokyo2016 Flickr
June 23rd, 2009 9 Comments
We have been delighted with the response and contribution to the Tokyo2016 Flickr group.
The collection of photos and videos is brilliant and we would like to introduce ten top contributions to the group.
1. We were thrilled to see this this photo of a Boeing 777 with paintings of Japanese medalists on board. What a cool [...]
