Japan
The archery venue for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games was officially unveiled on Sunday becoming the first of the Games’ new venues to be completed.
Yumenoshima Park Archery Field, located on a former landfill site, was set for completion in May.
Other than the Olympic Stadium and the Olympic and Paralympic athletes village, Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) is building eight new competition venues for the Games.
The rest of the venues will be refurbished pre-existing facilities.
The archery field, with a covered grandstand and warm-up area shaped like an archer’s bow, is the first of the new venues to be completed.
The venue was opened by Princess Tsuguko, who is a patron of the All Japan Archery Federation, alongside Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike.
Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda, who will step down from the role in June amid a corruption probe despite denying any wrongdoing, was also in attendance.
Double Olympic medalist Hiroshi Yamamoto and other Japanese archers fired arrows through balloons and archers from various local clubs were then allowed to use the facilities for the very first time.
In February, construction at all new venues, including the Aquatics Centre, was found to be on schedule.
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