Olympics: Criteria for mascot design competition to be released mid-May

Details of the public design competition for the official mascot of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be released in mid-May, the games' organizing committee said Monday.A panel to decide the selection process for the mascot met for the eighth and last time and after 17 total hours of deliberation by the 15-member team, the first steps for the competition will finally be taken next month.The Tokyo Olympic mascot is set to be unveiled in the summer of 2018."We went over the criteria for the competition and the selection process for the last time," said Yoshiko Ikoma, the vice chair of the panel. …READ FULL ARTICLE