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Istanbul, Tokyo and Madrid 2020 Olympic bid presentations 898992 AP TELEVISION Lausanne - 3 July 2013 ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++ 1. Various of members of International Olympic Committee (IOC) arriving 2. Close of Jacques Rogge, IOC president 3. Mid of Istanbul 2020 delegation arriving 4. Wide of Tokyo 2020 delegation arriving 5. End of Madrid 2020 news conference Japanese PM delighted after Tokyo awarded 2020 Olympic Games, Erdogan disappointed 908251 AP TELEVISION Buenos Aires - 7 Sept 2013 ++VIDEO AND AUDIO QUALITY AS INCOMING++ 6. Close of Japanese bid committee member holding the flag of the Tokyo candidacy 7. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Shinzo Abe, Japanese Prime Minister: "It's really great, isn't it? It was really nerve-wracking, but let's make the Tokyo games a real success, we will all do our best and work hard together. Everyone really played their part here today. I think everyone in Japan is going to be delighted with this." STORYLINE: Madrid, Istanbul and Tokyo made their pitches to International Olympic Committee (IOC) members on July 3rd 2013, two months before the vote on who will host the 2020 Games. It was the first time the three cities had laid out their plans directly to the IOC's General Assembly - a potentially pivotal moment for the cities in the run-up to the September 7th vote in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was at a similar meeting in 2009 that Rio de Janeiro won over the members in the race for the 2016 Olympics. Up first in the presentations was Istanbul, whose bid has been shaken by the anti-government protests that swept Turkey last month. Madrid and Tokyo followed. The meetings took place behind closed doors at the Beaulieu convention centre in Lausanne, Switzerland. Each delegation had 45 minutes to make speeches and show videos, with another 45 minutes allotted for questions and answers. Last week, the IOC released a technical evaluation report on the cities to give members as much factual information as possible. The report did not rank or grade the cities, but Tokyo - which is bidding for a second time in a row - appeared to come out the best overall. Japan claims to be a "safe pair of hands" at a time of global economic and political uncertainty. Delegates from the country's 2020 Olympic bid committee said on Wednesday that hosting the Games would be an important part of the country's recovery, following the devastating earthquake and tsunami in 2011. "In 2011, we had an earthquake and tsunami - major disasters happening on March 11th. Because of the disasters, Japan gave the impression it was destroyed or completely laid down, but after all, we wanted to raise up again," said Taro Aso, Japan's deputy prime minister. Tokyo is bidding to host the Games for the first time since 1964. Istanbul, meanwhile, is bidding for a fifth time. Turkey is inviting the IOC to take the Olympics to a new region, to a predominantly Muslim country for the first time, to a city that connects Asia and Europe. Istanbul probably had the most at stake on Wednesday, needing to reassure members in the wake of the unprecedented street demonstrations across the country last month that led to a crackdown by the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayypip Erdogan. "What we saw in Turkey in the streets a few weeks ago were actually really diverse groups, really different groups of people who had very different aspirations, different wills, different maybe cautions, maybe some fears," said Deputy Turkish Prime Minister Ali Babacan, in Lausanne. "I think it was very important for them to express themselves. We listened to them and we are now working on strategies about what we should be doing," he added. Of the IOC's 100 members, 86 attended July 3rd's proceedings. *** You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/a3e873bdc4ea40c1b01db8bcc1952e1f Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork