Who is hosting the next Summer Olympics?
By Brad Weiss
Who is hosting the next Summer Olympics?
As all eyes turn to Rio for the 2016 Summer Olympics, we will take a look at who will be hosting the next Summer Games. In 2020, Tokyo will be the host city for the Summer Olympics, and it will be their second time hosting the games. Tokyo played host to the 1964 Games, and will now become the fifth city to host the games for a second time.
Three countries battled it out for the right to host the games, with Istanbul, Turkey and Madrid, Spain falling short. It is the third Olympics in a row that Madrid has missed out on hosting. Since no country had 50 percent of the vote in the final round, the second and third place countries (Istanbul and Spain) had a run-off vote to see who will be eliminated.
In the final vote, a head-to-head contest between Tokyo and Istanbul, Tokyo won, getting 60 votes to Istanbul’s 36.
The selection was announced by the International Olympic Committee on September 7, 2013. The 2020 Summer Games are slated to begin on July 24, 2020, and run until August 9. Keeping with tradition, the city plans to use some of the same venues as they did when they hosted in 1964. Over 200 countries are expected to participate in 2020.
As the host city to the Summer Olympics, Tokyo will also host the sixteenth Summer Paralympics. Those games are planned to run from August 25, 2020 through September 6. Because Tokyo held the Paralympics in 1964, they will be the first city to host them for the second time.
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