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TOKYO (AP) - The Japanese Olympic Committee on Thursday notified the International Olympic Committee of its intention to offer Tokyo as a candidate to host the 2016 Summer Olympics.
JOC president Tsunekazu Takeda and Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara submitted letters of intent to IOC president Jacques Rogge. It is the first formal procedure in the process of making a bid for the Olympics with the IOC, which will select the winning city in 2009.
Chicago, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, also have been approved as candidates by their national Olympic bodies. Tokyo hosted the Summer Olympics in 1964.
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