2020 By the Book: Travel Times

(ATR) In this installment of By the Book, Around the Rings presents a look at planned travel times of Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

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(ATR) In this installment of By the Book, Around the Rings presents alook at planned travel times of Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Istanbul

Average travel times to competition venues:

5 minutes from the Olympic and Paralympic Village for 44% athletes

5 minutes from the Media Village (to the Olympic Stadium)

30 minutes from the Main Hotel Area (to the Olympic Stadium)

Madrid

Average travel times to competition venues:

5 minutes from the Olympic Village for 65% athletes

15 minutes from the Olympic Village for 97% athletes

10 minutes from the Media Village and the IBC/MPC

11 minutes from the Main Hotel Area

Tokyo

Average travel times to competition venues:

5 minutes from the Olympic Village for 11% athletes

20 minutes from the Olympic Village for 87% athletes

15 minutes from the Main Media Hotel (to the Olympic Stadium)

5 minutes from the Main Hotel Area (to the Olympic Stadium)

By the Book is a series of reports on the 2020 candidate cities, using information provided in the candidate file of each city.

Written by Nicole Bennett.

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