2020 Olympics facts
While investigating facts about 2020 Olympics, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Japan is making all of its medals for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics out of discarded electronics
The 2020 Olympic Games will take place in Tokyo, Japan, as predicted in the manga "Akira" released in 1982.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 33 of the best facts about 2020 Olympics I managed to collect.
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The 2020 Olympics will be held in Japan whilst in the classic anime feature "Akira" the 2020 Olympics were also held in Japan
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The Tokyo Olympics will be held in 2020, corresponding with the events in the 1988 anime film Akira, which took place in 2019 leading up to the fictional 2020 Tokyo Olympics
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The 2020 Olympics will take place in Tokyo, as predicted in the manga Akira in 1982
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There will be five new sports debuting in the 2020 Summer Olympics: Skateboarding, Rock climbing, Surfing, Baseball/Softball, and Karate
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In the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, skateboarding will be included for the very first time as an Olympic game. Bowling was also suggested but didn't make the final 5 additions.
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The 1982 cyberpunk film Akira, based in 2019 Tokyo, accurately predicted the 2020 Olympic summer games, of which the Olympic stadium sets the scene of the film's epic climax.
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Tokyo is set to host the 2020 Olympics.
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Dancing in public venues has been illegal in Japan for decades, and will finally become legal to do so in 2017 after much debate and largely thanks to anticipation for the 2020 Olympics.
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At the closing ceremony of Rio 2016, Japanese PM, Shinzo Abe dressed as Super Mario and announced that the country's rich culture will be central to the Olympic Games in 2020.
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The 2020 Olympics will add more than two dozen new events to the games; including Surfing, Skateboarding, Sport Climbing, Co-Ed Team Judo, Two forms of Karate, and Co-Ed Doubles Table Tennis.
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Budokan, the Japanese concert venue, was built to host judo at the 1968 Olympics and will host judo and karate at the 2020 Olympics.
Skateboarding will be included in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games - source
In preparation for the 2019 Rugby World Cup and 2020 Olympics Japan is removing Manji from their tourists maps. So that tourists don't confuse them for swastikas. - source
The "Japan Toilet Awards" were created to help impress tourists with the facilities at the 2020 Olympics
Skateboarding will be included in the 2020 Olympic Games, which are set to be held in Tokyo.
Nazi architect and minister of arms, Albert Speer, had a son who only recently died in 2017. His son, also named Albert Speer, ran his own architecture firm and was involved in both the Chinese and German Olympics and the upcoming Fifa World cup in Qatar in 2020
About Japanese polyathlete Gurimu Narita, who after training in snowboarding and trampoline for the 2012 Olympics suffered a paralyzing injury to his left leg, took back to snowboarding and to golf, kayaking, shooting and high jump, winning medals in 2016 and going for summer Olympics 2020!
Medals for Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be made from mobile phones
Scattered around the world are at least 10 Hello Kitty time capsules and are set to be made into a Hello Kitty sculpture to be displayed at the Olympics in Tokyo in 2020.
2 x Olympic Gold Medalist Rower, Hamish Bond, who remained undefeated since 2007; has now transitioned to become a top professional cyclist, with eyes on Tokyo 2020.
The design of the new Olympic medals for Tokyo 2020 will reuse metals harvested from 78,895 tons of gadgets collected over 2 years in order to make the medals.
