Mount Fuji to serve as backdrop for 2020 time trials


  • Cycling
  • Wednesday, 10 Oct 2018

FILE PHOTO: Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic games emblems are displayed at Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Tokyo July 24, 2015. REUTERS/Issei Kato

TOKYO (Reuters) - The foothills of Mount Fuji will be the setting for the individual time trial events at the Tokyo Olympics, 2020 organisers and world cycling's governing body (UCI) announced on Wednesday.

The course would start and finish at the Fuji Speedway circuit at the base of the mountain, they said in a joint statement.

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