“The torch relay will start in March so we need to start building momentum and excitement for the Games,” Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said at a ceremony to mark the landmark. Below the fireworks, a giant monument of the five interlocking Olympic rings was lit up, nestled in the water at Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo Bay. The area will be the venue for triathlon and marathon swimming at Tokyo 2020 and is within sight of the athletes’ village that is still under construction. In a sign that perhaps not everyone is happy with Tokyo hosting the summer showpiece, about 10 anti-Olympics protesters gathered outside the hotel hosting the ceremony. They shouted throughout the ceremony through a megaphone and held banners reading “no Olympics in Tokyo” and “Olympics kills the poor”. “Because of the Olympics, homeless people will be kicked out (from streets) and other human rights will be violated,” protester Ayako Yoshida said. “I’ve always been against it (Olympics) because our tax money is wasted on building big facilities and not being used on citizen’s lives.” The Olympic Games run from July 24-Aug. 9. Tokyo previously held the Summer Olympics in 1964.
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