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Gilaad wrote: The poll was held last year, elementary students where the ones to chose the ambassadors. No surprise anime characters won.

They made it official on January of the current year. Here is the offiicial site. Here is also the official presentation of the ambassadors to the world.

The date is January 20. The news stated goku won it in 28th. If you look at the facebook post it even got the “ambassadors?” question mark. Which the olympics media was still not aware what Japan plan was.

Merchandise were available since the first ever time they release the candidates. So I feel like they were lazy enough not to change it.