Kyodo News Reels in Editor for Tokyo 2020

(ATR) Olympic journalist Takahito Tamura is returning to Japan to cover the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

yodo News Tokyo 2020 editor Takahito Tamura.

Kyodo spread its Olympic coverage net to London in 2013 following the 2012 Olympics, sending Tamura to keep tabs on the Sochi 2014 and Rio 2016 Games.

Tamura began his work with Kyodo News in 1996, covering his first Olympics at the Sydney 2000 Games. Following a brief stint covering professional baseball and soccer in Osaka, Tamura made the Olympics his primary focus upon his return to the Tokyo office in 2005.

He has covered five of the last six Olympics as well as the 2002 FIFA World Cup and four IAAF World Championships.

Now at 43, Tamura is returning from his first international posting in the U.K. to cover the developments leading up to the Tokyo 2020 Games as Kyodo’s Olympics editor.

Tamura tells Around the Rings his last assignment in London was to interview former European editor of the Associated Press Steve Wilson, whom Tamura calls "Mr. Olympics".

Wilson announced he was leaving the AP for a position on the other side of the fence, being tapped for the International Tennis Federation’s director of communications.

Tamura tells ATR he is grateful for the colleagues he’s worked with during his stay in London which he says gave him "invaluable experience of being present at historical moments of the highest levels of sport".

Written by Kevin Nutley

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