The 2020 Summer Olympics will be held from July 24th to August 9th, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo was selected as the host city in a vote by the International Olympic Committee on September 7th, 2013, defeating Istanbul. New and upgraded venues around Tokyo will host 28 of the 33 competition events within 5 miles of the Olympic Village, including a $1 billion reconstruction of the National Olympic Stadium. The mascot for the 2020 Games is Doraemon, an animated robotic cat. The IOC selected 25 core sports for 2020, adding golf and rugby sevens while controversially removing wrestling from the Olympic program.

1. 2020 Summer Olympics
The 2020 Summer Olympics 2020, officially known as the Games of the XXXII
Olympiad XXXII, is a planned major international sporting event that is scheduled to
be held from 24 July – 9 August 2020 in Tokyo, Japan.
Vote
The IOC voted to select the host city of the 2020 Summer Olympics on 7 September
2013 at the 125th IOC Session at the Buenos Aires Hilton in Buenos Aires,
Argentina. An exhaustive ballot system was used. No city won over 50% of the votes
in the first round, and Madrid and Istanbul were tied for second place. A run-off
vote between these two cities was held to determine which would be eliminated. In
the final vote, a head-to-head contest between Tokyo and Istanbul, Tokyo was
selected by 60 votes to 36.
Venues
It was confirmed in February 2012 that the National Olympic Stadium in Tokyo would
receive a $1 billion upgrade and full–scale reconstruction for the 2019 Rugby World
Cup as well as the 2020 Olympics. 28 of the 33 competition venues in Tokyo are
within 8 kilometres (5 miles) of the Olympic Village. 11 new venues are to be
constructed.
Mascot
2020 Tokyo today welcomed its first special ambassador, the beloved animated
robotic cat "Doraemon", joining to help achieve the designation of the Japanese
capital as the next venue for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympics Games.
Sports
Following the 2012 Games, the IOC assessed the 26 sports held in London, with the
remit of selecting 25 'core' sports to join new entrants golf and rugby sevens at the
2020 Games. In effect, this would involve the dropping of one sport from the 2016
Games program. This would leave a single vacancy in the 2020 Games program, which
the IOC would seek to fill from a shortlist containing seven unrepresented sports and
the removed sport. Events such as modern pentathlon, taekwondo and badminton were
among those considered vulnerable.
On 12 February 2013, IOC leaders voted to drop wrestling from the Olympic
program, a surprise decision that removed one of the oldest Olympic sports from the
2020 Games