Just over a month since his 17th birthday, Taiju Goto proved his 48.31 U18 WR in the men's 400 mH heats yesterday wasn't a fluke as he bettered that in the final on the last day of the 110th National Track and Field Championships in Nagoya. Slow in the start, Goto picked up momentum coming up to 200 m before really getting into gear, pulling away from the rest of the field in the last 100 m to win in 48.09, another U18 WR, a new U20 NR, and a run that made him the first high schooler ever to with the Nationals 400 mH. Now only 0.20 off the senior NR, Goto joins the list of Rakunan H.S. talent to be re-writing the record books that includes Yoshihide Kiryu , Ryuji Miura , Keita Sato and Toshinari Takaoka . Another Nationals MR went down, this one in the women's 3000 mSC thanks to NR holder Miu Saito . Having taken 3rd in the 5000 m 2 days ago, Saito started out a little on the conservative side with company from last year's winner Manami Nishiyama in the first 1000 ...
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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