Summer Olympics

TOKYO: The organising committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 has shortlisted three mascot design sets for the the next Summer Olympics.

Each design set contains one mascot for the Olympic Games and one for the Paralympic Games. In all, the mascot selection panel reviewed 2,042 entries, submitted by the public as part of an open competition.

The shortlisted designs were unveiled by schoolchildren at a special ceremony at a primary school in the Japanese capital.