The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee decided1 on a new official emblem2 on Monday.
东京2020奥运会和残奥会组织委员会周一公布新的官方会徽。
The new emblem, a
checkered3 pattern in "the traditional Japanese color of
indigo4 blue", was designed by 46-year-old Tokyo-based artist Asao Tokolo.
It was chosen from a shortlist of four after some 14,599 entries were submitted in a contest open to the public.
Yoshiro Mori, chief of the organizing committee, said the committee had met 15 times since last September to decide on the new emblem.
The previous logo by Japanese artist Kenjiro Sano was
scrapped5 last September over
plagiarism6 accusations7 due to its similarity to the logo of a theater in Belgium.
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