{"id":3805,"date":"2013-11-25T09:37:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T09:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jlgc.wordpress.com\/?p=3805"},"modified":"2014-07-17T22:32:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T21:32:16","slug":"countdown-to-tokyo-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/about-jlgc\/countdown-to-tokyo-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to Tokyo 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we assisted a delegation\u00a0of six\u00a0Tokyo Metropolitan Assemblymen on\u00a0their study visit to London in support of Tokyo&#8217;s hosting of the 2020 Olympic Games.\u00a0\u00a0 As well as inspecting London 2012 venues and the Olympic Park, at City Hall they met with Darren Johnson AM (Chair of the London Assembly)\u00a0and Nicky Gavron AM (former Deputy Mayor and current London Assembly Planning Committee chair),\u00a0in addition to\u00a0key officials of the Greater London Authority.\u00a0 The group were\u00a0told of the key\u00a0role of the assembly in holding the Olympics organisers to account over staging the &#8220;greenest games ever&#8221; and ensuring a sustainable legacy after the games.<\/p>\n<p>They also visited\u00a0the London Legacy Development Corporation to\u00a0hear first-hand about the post-games use of the Olympic Park and venues.\u00a0 At UK Trade &amp; Investment (in association with the Japan External Trade Organization, JETRO), the group\u00a0learnt about the success of engaging UK business in the staging of the games with positive results for the British economy, an impressive\u00a0key takeaway point for Tokyo&#8217;s 2020 planning,\u00a0they felt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we assisted a delegation\u00a0of six\u00a0Tokyo Metropolitan Assemblymen on\u00a0their study visit to London in support of Tokyo&#8217;s hosting of the 2020 Olympic Games.\u00a0\u00a0 As well as inspecting London 2012 venues and the Olympic Park, at City Hall they met with Darren Johnson AM (Chair of the London Assembly)\u00a0and Nicky Gavron AM (former Deputy Mayor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-jlgc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4190,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions\/4190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}