From Rio to Tokyo, the countdown for 2020 is on!

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 21, 2016 – With the dust still to settle on the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, attention is already shifting to Tokyo 2020 -now 1433 days out, after the Olympic Flag was returned tonight from Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes to International Olympic Committe (IOC) President Thomas Bach, who in turn handed it over to Governor of Tokyo Yuriko Koike.The flag handover was a segment in the Closing Ceremony of Rio 2016 tonight at the iconic Maracana Stadium, right next to the legendary Maracanazinho which hosted the volleyball at these Olympic Games.Tokyo sees the Olympic Games return there after they were first hosted in the Japanese capital in 1964. For volleyball especially there is special significance and emotion, as it was in Tokyo 1964 that the sport was first officially introduced to the Olympic Programme.The Games of the XXXII Olympiad will begin on Friday 24 July with the Opening Ceremony and wrap up on Sunday 9 August …

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