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Tokyo hosting the 2016 Olympic Games would serve as a role model for the rest of the century, Japan's 2004 men's hammer Olympic champion Koji Murofushi told AFP on Wednesday.

Top athletes and a robot are working hard to ensure that Tokyo gets the Olympics again in 2016.

Tyson Gay and Allyson Felix did not have their best races, but still lived up to top billing as both triumphed in a comfortable manner.

TOKYO: Japanese Olympic officials are set to ask the country's new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to attend next month's 2016 vote in Copenhagen.

As it sails toward the unknown waters of the upcoming and crucial IOC Congress, the Tokyo 2016 bid committee is pressing to get newly installed Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on board.

Tokyo's Olympic bid organizers have urged new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to join them in Copenhagen for the International Olympic Committee's upcoming vote on which city hosts the 2016 Games.

Japanese hammer-throw champion Koji Murofushi has scrubbed and polished the cauldron atop Tokyo's National Stadium to tout one advantage of the city's bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics -- legacy.

Athens Olympic hammer throw champion Koji Murofushi said Tuesday he will attend an International Olympic Committee general assembly meeting in Copenhagen on Oct.

Koji Murofushi wowed his audience with a throw of 257 feet, 1 inch from the covered portion of the throwing facilities while bands of showers rolled by.

Koji Murofushi will try to salvage the 2009 season with a good throw at the Concordia Throws Center on Sunday.

Yoko Shibui of Japan crosses the finish line to win the women s division of the San Francisco marathon in San Francisco on July 26.

Yoko Shibui of Japan crosses the finish line to win the women s division of the San Francisco marathon in San Francisco on July 26.

Just days away from the start of track and field's biggest competition of 2009, top officials from the Japan Association of Athletics Federations expressed pride in its athletes and confidence that they'll have a successful showing in Germany.

Injuries kept Chisato Fukushima and Naoki Tsukahara out of their respective 100-meter finals at last weekend's Japan athletics championships.