Tokyo 2020 gymnastics and boccia venue unveiled

Reuters- The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) on Tuesday (October 29) unveiled the new Ariake Gymnastics Centre, which will host Gymnastic and Boccia events during the Tokyo 2020 Games. The 12,000-seat, 30-meter height venue, whose construction was completed on 25 October, has no pillar in the performance area. The central element of the architecture is a 90-meter spanned, local larch wood roof that arches over the building's core. Timbers of Larch were all domestically sourced including from Hokkaido, Nagano and Miyazaki prefectures to name a few. The venue, located in the Ariake district of the Japanese capital that will host many other Olympic events, will be also used as an exhibition center when the Games are over. One of the Tokyo 2020 officials at a press viewing of the venue, Koichi Fukui told reporters that wood materials would eventually be used as partitions at exhibitions and all the bench boards would be recycled into shoe shelves for schools. The venue will host the 34th FIG Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships in November.