China saw a new men's national record of 2:06:57 from Jie He at the Wuxi Marathon Sunday, but in Japan it was a relatively quiet weekend with mostly cold and rainy amateur-level marathons across the country. At the Tokushima Marathon , club runner Yuhi Yamashita won the men's race by almost 4 1/2 minutes in 2:17:02, the fastest Japanese men's time of the weekend, but oddly took 22 seconds to get across the starting line. The women's race saw a close finish between the top two, with Shiho Iwane winning in 2:49:33 over Ayaka Furukawa , 2nd in 2:49:46. At the 41st edition of the Sakura Marathon in Chiba, Yukie Matsumura (Comodi Iida) ran the fastest Japanese women's time of the weekend, 2:42:45, to take the win. Club runner Yuki Kuroda won the men's race in 2:20:08. Chika Yokota won the Saga Sakura Marathon women's race in 2:49:33. Yuki Yamada won the men's race in 2:21:47 after taking the lead in the final 2 km. Naoki Inoue won the 16th r
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You look at that and it does nothing for you at all.
The only recognizable thing is the tired cliche of the Japanese red sun from the flag. I suppose the powers that be told the designer that had to be in the design, but he should have refused.
If the mark on the top of the black bar makes it a "T", the mark on the bottom makes it an "L". Which means what?...
And the Paralympic one is even worse.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/feb/28/iran-london-olympics-logo-zion