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UPDATED: As Countdown Clock reaches 100 days to go, IOC sees Tokyo as best-prepared city in Olympic history

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    • Title UPDATED: As Countdown Clock reaches 100 days to go, IOC sees Tokyo as best-prepared city in Olympic history
    • Publication Date 14th April 2021
    • Languages EN, JP
    • Location Tokyo-Japan, Lausanne-Switzerland & Sydney-Australia
    • Press Release https://www.olympic.org/news/100-days-to-go-until-tokyo-2020
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      The IOC offers the following Video News Release to all news agencies, broadcasters and online news platforms free of charge. STORY HEADLINE: International Olympic Committee hails Tokyo as the best-prepared host city ever with 100 days to go until the Olympic Games 2020 LOCATION: Tokyo, Japan, Lausanne, Switzerland, & Sydney, Australia DATE: 14 April 2021 LANGUAGE: English & Japanese Broadcast quality footage available at the IOC Newsroom: http://iocnewsroom.com STORY SCRIPT: To mark 100 days to go until the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 begin, the Organising Committee unveiled a giant set of Olympic rings on top of Mount Takao, which is located in Tokyo, and statues of the Olympic and Paralympic mascots at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government headquarters. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach celebrated the occasion at the official Tokyo 2020 countdown clock in the Olympic Capital Lausanne. He was joined by a group of riders from the International Cycling Union’s (UCI) World Cycling Centre for the very moment that marked 100 days to the Games.

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