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Australia to feature at Fukushima in the opening Olympics event

Japan, Australia to open Tokyo Olympics with Fukushima softball game, NBC Sports , By OlympicTalkMar 12, 2020 Japan and Australia will play the first sporting event of the Tokyo Olympics, a softball game in Fukushima, the site of 2011 nuclear plant meltdowns caused by an earthquake and tsunami 155 miles north of Tokyo.

Japan and Australia will play on Wednesday, July 22, at 9 a.m. local time (Tuesday evening U.S. time), two days before the Opening Ceremony. In Summer Olympics, soccer matches have traditionally started days before the Opening Ceremony, though the first soccer match will not be held before the first softball game in Japan….

The Olympic softball schedule was announced Wednesday evening. https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2020/03/12/olympic-softball-schedule/?fbclid=IwAR0mQPZoaa44H6NIkyVlIQgXV-Yqq18kLvFrhG9pS8Xhu55gRnKHBpCon68

March 16, 2020 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, politics international