Samsung will donate $50,000 to help more Brazilian youngsters attend the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games and to ensure the stands continue to be packed with fans throughout the Games which run until Sept. 18. Samsung's donation will support the global crowdfunding #FilltheSeats campaign which has now raised more than $300,000. The campaign was started in late August by Greg Nugent, the former London 2012 marketing director (Paralympics).
FORMAL REQUEST: Iwaki, Japan, Mayor Toshio Shimizu presented a request to 2020 Tokyo Olympic organizers, "seeking to host a baseball game and a softball game in the city in Fukushima Prefecture." Shimizu "submitted the request" to Tokyo Olympic organizing committee President Yoshiro Mori and Toshiei Mizuochi, senior vice-minister of both the sports ministry and the Cabinet Office. The request comes as Tokyo Olympic organizers are "arranging to stage one first-round game each for baseball and softball in Fukushima Prefecture, one of the areas hardest hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster" (KYODO, 9/9).
