Japan has been awarded the 2014 World Figure Skating Championships, three months after it relinquished the 2011 event following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disasters.
The International Skating Union said on June 14 that the 2014 world championships will be held either in in Tokyo or nearby Saitama-ken (Saitama Prefecture)to the north.
The 2011 figure skating world championships were to be held in Tokyo in late March, but it ceded responsibility following the twin disasters and nuclear crisis in Fukushima-ken (Fukushima Prefecture), as it realized there was no way it could fiscally hold the event—and wasn't sure anyone from around the world would want to come. The event was subsequently held in Moscow, Russia.
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The International Skating Union said on June 14 that the 2014 world championships will be held either in in Tokyo or nearby Saitama-ken (Saitama Prefecture)to the north.
The 2011 figure skating world championships were to be held in Tokyo in late March, but it ceded responsibility following the twin disasters and nuclear crisis in Fukushima-ken (Fukushima Prefecture), as it realized there was no way it could fiscally hold the event—and wasn't sure anyone from around the world would want to come. The event was subsequently held in Moscow, Russia.
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