Post date: Sep 07, 2013 8:40:38 PM
Tokyo is awarded the 2020 summer Olympic Games following a vote by the International Olympic Committee.
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (SEPTEMBER 7, 2013) (IOC POOL) - Tokyo was awarded the 2020 summer Games on Saturday (September 7), beating Istanbul in a head-to-head vote after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had addressed the International Olympic Committee in person to allay fears over the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
The Japanese capital won the right to stage the sporting extravaganza for the second time, having hosted in 1964 when the Games first went to Asia, after two years of intense lobbying and tens of millions of dollars spent.For Istanbul it was a fifth unsuccessful bid to host a summer Olympics.
Madrid, which had pitched a safe, affordable, "sensible" bid had been earlier eliminated first in a secret vote by International Olympic Committee members on a head to head with Istanbul after the two cities were tied in second place after the initial vote. Their attempt to host 2020 had been a third consecutive bid.
The next summer Olympics will be hosted by Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
List of host cities for the modern summer Olympics after Tokyo was awarded the 2020 Games on Saturday.
1896 - Athens
1900 - Paris
1904 - St Louis
1908 - London
1912 - Stockholm
1924 - Paris
1928 - Amsterdam
1932 - Los Angeles
1936 - Berlin
1948 - London
1952 - Helsinki
1956 - Melbourne
1960 - Rome
1964 - Tokyo
1968 - Mexico City
1972 - Munich
1976 - Montreal
1980 - Moscow
1984 - Los Angeles
1988 - Seoul
1992 - Barcelona
1996 - Atlanta
2000 - Sydney
2004 - Athens
2008 - Beijing
2012 - London
2016 - Rio de Janeiro
2020 - Tokyo