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Pisces

(5,599 posts)
Sat Sep 7, 2013, 05:40 PM Sep 2013

2020 Summer Olympics will be in Tokyo!!

I wonder what happened to the radiation concerns? Just last week they were very low on the list. I wonder what swayed their
decision?

I guess they convinced the committee that radiation would not be a concern in the city. Too far away from Fukishima??

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2020 Summer Olympics will be in Tokyo!! (Original Post) Pisces Sep 2013 OP
I was expecting Istanbul. femmocrat Sep 2013 #1
The place that had multi-day protests violently broken up by the government? muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #2

muriel_volestrangler

(101,271 posts)
2. The place that had multi-day protests violently broken up by the government?
Sat Sep 7, 2013, 06:19 PM
Sep 2013

A government still in charge, which has done absolutely nothing to make things better? I was surprised it got as far as the final 2.

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