Dispute over who funds costs with Olympics delayed until 2021IOC omits remarks on website that
Japan PM had agreed to payThe 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”.