- Dispute over who funds costs with Olympics delayed until 2021
- IOC omits remarks on website that Japan PM had agreed to pay
The International Olympic Committee has been strongly rebuked by the Tokyo 2020 organisers and the Japanese government after saying the country’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, had agreed to bear the brunt of the costs of delaying the Olympics to 2021.
Tokyo organisers took the unusual step of demanding the IOC remove a comment from its website quoting Abe apparently agreeing to cover the extra costs, with the spokesman Masa Takaya saying it was “not appropriate for the prime minister’s name to be quoted in this manner”. Abe’s spokesman, Yoshihide Suga, also challenged the IOC and said there “is no such agreement related to additional cost stemming from the postponement”.
Written by Sean Ingle
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/apr/21/tokyo-olympic-2020-organisers-ioc-delete-website-extra-costs-japan-pm-shinzo-abe under the title “Tokyo 2020 team forces IOC to delete claim that Abe agreed to bear extra costs”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
