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Tokyo put an impressive yet quite unexpected show to wow the International Olympic Committee's Evaluation Commission. Today members were treated to a virtual tour of the Olympic Stadium proposed for the 2016 Olympics, which Tokyo hopes to host. The 13-member International Olympic Committee Evaluation Commission arrived in an environmentally-friendly electric bus to tour the proposed site for the Olympic stadium. But instead of a construction site, they were seated in a tent set up on an empty field. Wearing future scope goggles they were then presented with the future yet-unbuilt stadium in virtual reality. Not only were they shown the completed stadium, they also had the chance to virtually try out the 100 meter dash inside the cyber-stadium. Tokyo's Olympic Bid Committee says they wanted to make sure the committee's experience of Tokyo was a memorable one. [Yoshimatsu Kaji, Tokyo 2016 Bid Committee]: "They are all very fun people, and we hope that they come to like our city, understand our plan, and come to feel that we can be a good team together." However not everyone is happy with Tokyo's bid for the 2016 Olympics. About fifty people demonstrated outside one of the tour venues today with banners reading "No Olympics in Tokyo," while others shouted for hospitals to be constructed, rather than stadiums. While opinion polls show growing support for the Tokyo Olympics, Tokyo residents are the most reserved of the four Olympic city candidates. One poll, taken by the IOC last June, had Tokyo Olympic support at 59 percent, compared to Chicago at 74 percent, Rio de Janeiro at 77 percent and Madrid at a whopping 90 percent support from its citizens. The results of the bid will be announced on October 2nd in Copenhagen.