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Who will pay for Olympics delay? Tokyo organisers, IOC spar over extra cost

According to Japanese media reports, the long delay of Tokyo Olympics over coronavirus pandemic will cost $2 billion to $6 billion

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A controversy broke out between Tokyo 2020 organisers and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Tuesday over sharing extra costs due to a year-long postponement of the mega event, Olympics.
 
Tokyo 2020 spokesman Masa Takaya said the organizing committee has asked the Switzerland-based IOC to remove a comment from its website suggesting that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had agreed that Japan would shoulder most of the postponement costs. 
Cost of Tokyo Olympics postponement
 
According to Japanese media reports, the long delay of Tokyo Olympics over coronavirus pandemic will cost $2 billion to $6 billion. Neither side has given an

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