Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, January 17 (Reporter Prince Jiang Deng Min) a huge five-ring sign was erected on the sea of Tokyo Bay on the morning of the 17th. This is the new landmark of the city erected by the Tokyo organizing committee for the Olympic Games this summer.
At about 8 a.m., a barge carried a five-ring road with a height of 15 m 3 and a width of 32 m 6 into Tokyo Bay, and finally moored on the sea outside the seaside park of Taichang in eastern Tokyo, A few hundred meters behind is another landmark in Tokyo, the Rainbow Bridge, and the Tokyo Tower can be seen further away.
The Steel five-ring mark weighs 69 tons and is equipped with light-emitting equipment. On January 24, just six months before the opening of the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee will hold switch-on ceremony for it, and fireworks will be set off at the moment of lighting the fifth ring.
The news released by the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee said that the establishment of this giant five-ring logo was part of the Tokyo municipal government’s action to dress up the city, “The purpose is to give residents, tourists and Olympic audiences create a festive atmosphere”.
Kenichi Kimura, an Olympic organizing committee official in charge of this project, told the reporter: “The coast of Tokyo is a landmark of the whole city, and the five rings are set here to let people all over the world know.”
As for where the Big Mac will go after the Olympic Games, Kimura said that the Olympic organizing committee had not made up its mind: “Maybe it melted and recycled, maybe it was relocated in another place.”
The five rings logo will be removed after the closing of the Tokyo Olympic Games on August 9 and replaced with an equally huge Paralympic Games logo.