Tokyo Plans for 2020 Bid
Tokyo is planning to bid for the 2020 Olympics. Shintaro Ishihara, the governor of Tokyo said in an interview over the weekend, the city will make another attempt to host the event.
“We have taken all the trouble to build up the momentum” he told the Asahi Shimbun newspaper. “Tokyo must apply for it”
Ishihara’s term expires in 2011, before the deadline for cities to declare their candidacy. Ishihara is still expected to influence Olympic leaders to push ahead with the bid.
"It is my responsibility to declare our candidacy," Ishihara said. "It is up to the next governor to decide whether or not we will act it out."
Japanese Olympic Committee vice president Tomiaki Fukuda welcomed the bid saying “It is truly great.”
Hiroshima and Nagasaki announced a joint bid to promote a nuclear-free world. Ishihara said Tokyo might reach out to Hiroshima for the bid.
It is up to the JOC to decide which city to present for the 2020 Olympics bid. An official with the JOC tells Around the Rings they have just completed a three week review of the failed 2016 Tokyo bid.
Vancouver Ticket Sales Problem
Vancouver 2010 organizers pushed back Phase 3 of ticket sales until Nov. 14 due to technical problems by Tickets.com.
More than 100,000 Vancouver 2010 tickets went on-sale last Saturday to Canadian residents, but only "a few hundred" were snapped up because of glitches by Tickets.com
"On behalf of Tickets.com, we sincerely apologize," said company CEO Larry Witherspoon in a news release.
The first-come, first-served online and phone sale for Vancouver area events was supposed to start at 10 a.m. Pacific time, but the Web site crashed and callers to the hotline were greeted with "network difficulty" messages.
"We are disappointed that people waiting to purchase tickets today did not receive the chance to do so," said VANOC ticketing vice-president Caley Denton. "This is the first time we have had such an issue."
A virtual waiting room was supposed to regulate the expected heavy demand on the Tickets.com system. After hours of silence from VANOC and Tickets.com, a news release was issued at 1:14 p.m. PST citing "difficulties with the configuration between the virtual waiting room and the ticketing transaction site."
Tickets.com is a California-based Major League Baseball subsidiary that beat Ticketmaster for the contract in 2007.
Isolated problems were reported when tickets went on sale through a lottery in November 2008 and on first-come, first-serve in June 2009. To subscribe to Around the Rings
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With reporting from Bob Mackin in Vancouver.
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