London Games send-off ceremony

London Games send-off ceremony

TOKYO, Japan - Women's wrestling champion Saori Yoshida (L), Japan Olympic delegation Hinomaru flag-bearer, attaches a good-luck charm to her jacket during a send-off ceremony for the national team to the London Olympics, at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo on July 21, 2012. To the right is javelin thrower Yukifumi Murakami (R), Japan Olympic team captain. They received good-luck charms made of debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and made by children in disaster-stricken areas.

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