Olympics will be 'simplified' in 2021

Olympics will be 'simplified' in 2021

By Naveel Krishant
Thursday 11/06/2020
[Photo: Getty Image]

Tokyo 2020 will be a "simplified" Olympics.

The Games, scheduled to start in July, were postponed for a year in March because of fears over the Covid-19 pandemic.

Tokyo 2020 chief executive Toshiro Muto added that the Olympics will "not be done with grand splendour".

Organisers said that they are working on more than 200 ideas to simplify and reduce costs for the rescheduled Games.

Muto, also revealed that the organisers had not ruled out reducing the number of fans, although the competition schedule remained unchanged for now.

Meanwhile, Yoshiro Mori, the president of Tokyo 2020, refused to discuss the possibility of cancelling the Games altogether.

[Source: BBC]

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