International Olympic Committee announced that, on Thursday evening, Japan loading additional costs resulting from the postponement of the Olympic Games «Tokyo 2020», from this year to next year, before you delete this command from Brha on the website.
This comes amid controversy between the Commission and Japanese officials who opposed the endurance alone, the cost of delay. The International Olympic Committee said: "Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed that Japan will bear the costs, according to the terms of the current agreement for the 2020 round."
It is noteworthy that the two sides agreed on March 24 to postpone "Tokyo 2020" until next year, due to the pandemic of the Corona virus.
Officials in Japan said that the delay would result in costs, ranging between three and six billion dollars.
The Committee added: «The Committee will continue to take responsibility, it is clear that the additional costs are estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars». While a Japanese government spokesman, Yoshidehide Suga, told a press conference that there was no agreement on the costs of the delay.
Said Mayor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike, in a press statement, when she finally spoke, over the phone with the head of the International Coordinating Committee Baloolympih, John Coates, did not address talk to the postponement costs.
Japanese officials have denied the agreement to bear additional costs for the postponement.