Off the wire
• 1st Ld-Writethru: China stocks close lower Monday  • China Hushen 300 index futures close lower Monday  • China treasury bond futures close lower Monday  • China's legislature mulls ratifying treaty to cut mercury  • China reports less production accidents in Q1  • Xinhua Insight: China greening investment to tackle economic blues  • 1st LD: 8 killed as car bomb hits military checkpoint south of Damascus  • 1st LD-Writethru: Top legislature reviews environmental report  • Ted Cruz, John Kasich team up to prevent Donald Trump nomination  • Urgent: Senior army officer killed in Burundi's capital  
You are here: 　 Home

New logo selected for 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Xinhua, April 25, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee decided on a new official emblem on Monday, seven months after an initial design was scrapped due to plagiarism accusations.

The new emblem, a checkered pattern in "the traditional Japanese color of indigo blue", was designed by 46-year-old Tokyo-based artist Asao Tokolo.

It was chosen from a shortlist of four after some 14,599 entries were submitted in a contest open to the public.

Yoshiro Mori, chief of the organizing committee, said the committee had met 15 times since last September to decide on the new emblem.

The previous logo by Japanese artist Kenjiro Sano was scrapped last September over plagiarism accusations due to its similarity to the logo of a theater in Belgium. Endit