Tokyo Olympics and IOC find mostly minor areas to ‘simplify`
(WorldNews Japan)

TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo Olympic organizers announced several “simplification” changes Friday for next year`s postponed games, though with few large-scale cost savings. Simplifying the Tokyo Games has been a pledge of the International Olympic Committee and local organizers since COVID-19 forced the unprecedented delay six months ago. Local estimates suggest the delay will cost several billion dollars, most of which will be borne by local taxpayers. “It’s like a glass half-filled, or half empty,” Yoshiro Mori, the president of the organizing committee, said while speaking in Japanese at the end of two days of on-line meetings with IOC...