Olympics: Tokyo 2020 mascots Miraitowa and Someity take center stage

The 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic mascots' names were revealed as Miraitowa and Someity, respectively, at ceremony on Sunday.Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee President Yoshiro Mori and Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike did the honors, displaying the name placards as the two mascots made a public appearance roughly two years ahead of the start of the Summer Games.Daiya Seto, the 400-meter individual medley bronze medalist at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, and Monika Seryu, who represented Japan in female paracanoe at the Rio Paralympics, also took the stage with six students from a Tokyo elem…READ FULL ARTICLE