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Princess Takamado's speech helped Tokyo win 2020 bid
Updated On: 09 September, 2013 02:55 AM IST | | PA Sport
It may have been Tony Blair and David Beckham 'what won it' for London but Tokyo's success in winning the vote to host the 2020 Olympics may be due, in no small measure, to their Cambridge-educated Princess Hisako of Takamado.
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The Imperial princess, who graduated from Girton College in 1975, delivered Tokyo’s opening speech to the International Olympic Committee in perfect BBC English that pushed every single button among the 100 or so industrials, royals and ex-Olympians who make up the membership of sport’s most elite club.
Princess Hisako of Takamado
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