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Japan Redesigning 2020 Olympic Games Logo After Plagiarism Allegations

Tokyo Olympic organizers announced on Tuesday they would be getting rid of the current Olympic logo for the 2020 Games amid allegations that its creator, Kenjiro Sano, plagiarized the design from the works of a Belgian designer, per the Associated Press (via ESPN.com).

"We have reached a conclusion that it would be only appropriate for us to drop the logo and develop a new emblem," Toshio Muto, the director general of the Tokyo organizing committee, told the Associated Press. "At this point, we have decided that the logo cannot gain public support."

Sano, meanwhile, defended his design, though he also agreed to withdraw it after hearing of the organizing committee's decision.