Tokyo to bid for 2020


TOKYO: Tokyo’s governor says he wants to bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics — a month after Japan’s capital lost out to Rio de Janeiro for the rights to host the 2016 edition. Gov Shintaro Ishihara told a group of reporters on Monday he wants to give it another try. Rio won the vote by IOC members last month, beating bids from Tokyo, Madrid and Chicago for the 2016 Olympics. Hiroshima and Nagasaki have also announced plans to jointly seek to bring the Olympics to Japan in 2020. Other cities that have expressed interest in the 2020 Olympics include Istanbul, Budapest and New Delhi. A host city is expected to be named in 2013.