By Jon Day


TOKYO Nike Air Max 97 Silver Bullet UK , Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Preparations for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics are already underway with Japan already sizing up plans to ready its sporting facilities and urban infrastructure, according to Japanese officials on Monday.


Fresh from getting the nod from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for Tokyo to host the games on Saturday in Buenos Aires, Japan will reconsider the idea of setting up a new sports agency, as was floated prior to Tokyo failing to secure the 2016 Games, which were awarded to Rio de Janeiro, with the aim of further promoting sports on a national level in the run-up to the Games.


Japan is planning to see an amalgamation of training programs for both Olympic and Paralympic athletes, as part of a broader strategy to consolidate the Games, officials said.


In addition, they said Japan will seek to make training facilities available to both Olympic and Paralympic athletes and the endeavors will also fall under the education ministry and its new agency's jurisdiction.


An Olympic organizing committee will also be established in February as the city looks to upgrade its sporting facilities in the capital and build an Olympic Village.


The committee will oversee the government's plans to revitalize Tokyo's waterfront area as one of the major focal points of its 2020 objectives.


The Tokyo Bay Olympic Village will have 21 venues on waterfront sites and 85 percent of the venues will be within 8 km of each other, according to provisional plans.


With funds to the tune of 4.5 billion U.S. dollars allocated for the Games, 10 new permanent sporting venues will be built and the committee will also oversee the renovation of three venues used when Tokyo first hosted the Games in 1964.


Initial plans will see the Yoyogi National Gymnasium, which was the venue for swimming and basketball in 1964, host handball in 2020 and the table tennis competitions will be held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, which hosted both water polo and gymnastics in 1964.


As with the previous Olympics here, the Nippon Budokan will host the judo events, officials added.


The centerpiece of Tokyo's Olympic plan, however, is to revamp the Kasumigaoka National Stadium and the overhaul will be coordinated by British architecture firm, Zaha Hadid Architects, who have laid down plans to build an ultra-modern complex with a capacity for 80,000 spectators, with the project pegged to be completed in time for the 2019 Rugby World Cup here.


However, as Japan eyes the economic benefits the 2020 Olympics will bring, some authorities have voiced concern that Shinzo Abe and his administration have glossed over the severity of an ongoing nuclear crisis at the Fukushima plant 250 km northeast of the capital, in order to secure the prestigious Games.


In addition, and as the tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant continues to leak 300 tons of radioactive water into the adjacent pacific Ocean on a daily basis, concern is also rife that the thousands of people still living in temporary facilities in Japan's northeast following the March 2011 mega-quake that pummeled the eastern seaboard, triggering a killer tsunami, may be overlooked.


Concern is growing that as construction in the nation's capital swings into gear and becomes the government's main priority, public funds still needed in the quake and tsunami-affected areas may be redirected as the Games -- pitched to the IOC as a symbol of the nation's recovery after the 2011 disasters -- ironically take precedence.


BEIJING, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- China's latest J-20 stealthfighter has been officially commissioned into military service,according to Wu Qian, spokesperson for the Ministry of NationalDefense on Thursday.


The flight tests are being conducted as scheduled, Wu said at apress conference.


The J-20 is China's fourth-generation medium and long-rangefighter jet. It made its maiden flight in 2011 and was first shownto the public at the 11th Airshow China in Zhuhai, GuangdongProvince, in November last year.

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ATHENS， April 27 (Xinhua) -- The Flame burning for this summer's Rio Olympic Games was handed over to the Brazilian organizers in a spectacular ceremony held at Panathinaic Stadium in Athens on Wednesday.


At the marble venue of the first modern Olympics in 1896， Hellenic Olympic Committee President Spyros Capralos passed the Sacred Flame to the President of the Rio 2016 Organizing Committee Carlos Nuzman， wishing best success to the XXXI Games.


Nuzman left the stadium with the Sacred Light under the warm applause of some 30，000 Greeks and foreign tourists who had flooded the site.


Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos， international Olympic movement representatives， and Olympic medalists were also among the crowd that welcomed warmly the Olympic Flame when it entered the stadium.


The Sacred Light was carried by the Greek silver medalist in high jumping in the 1996 Atlanta Games Niki Bakogiannis， after having crossed a large part of Greece (about 2，200 kilometers) over the past week.


It was one of the highlights of the traditional handover ceremony which opened with the children's choir of the National Olympic Academy of Greece supported by the Philharmonic Band of the City of Athens singing the Olympic， Greek and Brazilian national anthems.


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