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Tokyo, Fukuoka bid for 2016 Games

TOKYO, Japan -- The mayors of Tokyo and the southern city of Fukuoka have submitted rival bids to host the 2016 Olympics to the Japan Olympic Committee.

The committee will announce on August 30 which of the cities will be chosen to make Japan's official bid.

Tokyo, who hosted the Games in 1964, is billing its bid as "compact" while Fukuoka plans to organise the venues so that all athletes will be able to reach stadia in five minutes, national broadcaster NHK said of the proposals.

"I am confident that we will be able to stage a futuristic Olympics," said Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara.

The International Olympic Committee will accept bids from 2008, with a final decision to be made in 2009.

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