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The Japan News/Yomiuri
The Japan News/Yomiuri
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The Yomiuri Shimbun

2,020 try out 2020 track

(Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

Some of the 2,020 people invited jog on the track of the new National Stadium in Tokyo on Saturday. Yoshihide Kiryu, the first Japanese sprinter to run under 10 seconds in the 100 meters, and Mizuki Noguchi, the gold medalist in the women's marathon at the 2004 Athens Olympics, were among those leading the participants around the track at the main venue for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.

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