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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tokyo Olympic officials decided on Tuesday to abandon the presented logo for the 2020 Olympics after multiple allegations that its creator plagiarized the design, reports the Associated Press.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Olympic organizers defended the logo's authenticity in a press conference last Friday, but rescinded their support after additional allegations surfaced that the bold \u201CT\u201D design was copied from a Belgian designer. That designer has taken legal action against Japanese designer Kenjiro Sano, claiming Sano copied the logo he created for a Belgian theater.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CWe have reached a conclusion that it would be only appropriate for us to drop the logo and develop a new emblem,\u201D said Toshio Muto, director general of the Tokyo organizing committee. \u201CAt this point, we have decided that the logo cannot gain public support.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong &gt;Report: L.A. strikes 2024 Olympic bid deal, pending OK from city&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sano is also under scrutiny for allegedly using someone else's photo in his presentation of the Olympic logo, and for allegedly copying others' work in a zoo and a museum that he has designed.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CI want Mr. Sano to provide an explanation. I feel like we have been betrayed,\u201D Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe said Tuesday.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The organizing committee will hold another competition for a new logo \u201Cas soon as possible,\u201D Muto said.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The logo debacle is the latest hiccup in Japan's Olympic plans, as the country also faced embarrassment after public outrage over exorbitant costs forced a change in the design for the Games' main stadium. The change resulted in a delay in its construction that will leave builders struggling to meet the January 2020 deadline.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;- Erin Flynn&lt;/em&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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