Tokyo Olympics / Para Simplification Reduction amount was only 30 billion yen Background October 8 4:54
Simplification of 52 items of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics postponed to next year.
While the tournament expenses are said to be 1,350 billion yen and the additional expenses due to postponement are said to be hundreds of billions of yen and 300 billion yen, the total reduction in cost simplification is only this scale. I have to say that.
Behind this is the cost of the tournament, which is "already squeezed," and the IOC contract.
First of all, the proposition was to reduce the tournament expenses, and the maximum of 1.5 trillion yen four years ago, excluding contingency expenses, was reduced by 150 billion yen, and the current 1,350 billion yen has already been slimmed down to a certain extent. It was in a state.
Considering that the cost of the 2012 London Olympic Games, which is compared when held in a mature big city, is 2.1 trillion yen according to materials such as Tokyo, in recent years new facility development is included in the plan. The reality is that the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo cost this much.
Furthermore, the simplification this time was in a situation where the postponement decision was imminent four months before the opening, and there is a premise that the number of competitions and the number of players, which are the basis of the tournament, will not be touched, so the targets that can be simplified are limited. Was being done.
Although it can be said that it is a certain achievement to review the services for the IOC officials of the Games organizer called "Olympic Family" as "review without sanctuary", there was a big wall here as well.
For example, at the opening ceremony, which is a symbol of the Games, the Organizing Committee proposed to shorten the time, while the IOC opposed the contract with the broadcasting rights holder who paid a huge broadcasting rights fee in 1984. We couldn't go into the bold simplification of the competition, which started at the Los Angeles Games, called commercialization, until we reconsidered it.
While the Organizing Committee was bound by the scale of the tournament that could not be moved and various contracts, the reality was that "something like squeezing a squeezed rag" was simplified, and it was inevitable that the reduction amount would remain at this scale. It can also be said.
The overall management of the tournament expenses is still unclear and the income is uncertain.
The future focus will be on the overall picture of the tournament expenses.
In the conventional plan, the Organizing Committee is 603 billion yen, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government is 579 billion yen, and the government is 150 billion yen, and the total amount excluding reserve funds is 1,350 billion yen.
In addition, additional costs due to postponement and countermeasure costs for the new coronavirus will be required.
The additional cost is the cost of re-contracting the competition venue and the labor cost for the new period, which is said to be several hundred billion yen, and the Organizing Committee wants to suppress it as much as possible and announce it within the year. ..
In addition, countermeasures against the new coronavirus are being discussed at a government-led countermeasures meeting, but since countermeasures range from the water's edge to movement and accommodation, the cost will be borne by the organizing committee, the government, or the local government. It has not been clarified yet.
The Organizing Committee and others want to summarize the major corona measures by the end of the year and announce the costs.
In other words, the big picture of spending is still unclear six months after the postponement.
On the other hand, income remains uncertain.
The IOC has announced that it will contribute $ 650 million as additional expenses due to the postponement, about 70 billion yen in Japanese yen, but it is unclear how much it will directly be included in the operating expenses of the tournament.
The Organizing Committee has a reserve fund of 27 billion yen so far, but 79 sponsor companies that contract with the Organizing Committee have expired at the end of this year, and contracts for postponement are still under negotiation. is.
However, even if the sponsor company renews the contract company-wide, it is not possible to expect an increase in income until it can cover all the hundreds of billions of yen that would be incurred due to additional expenses.
The last burden may be the citizens of Tokyo and the people
Then, it is possible that the Organizing Committee will be in the red.
If that happens, the deficit will be covered by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government first, and if the Tokyo Metropolitan Government cannot pay, the government will cover the deficit under the "host city contract" signed by the IOC and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. I will.
After all, the final burden may be on the tax-paying citizens and citizens.
How much the tournament expenses, including additional expenses, and whether or not the balance will be met can be a close issue with the usage of national taxes.
The Organizing Committee not only repeats the phrase "a tournament that gains the understanding and sympathy of the people," but also explains the entire tournament expenses properly and what can be gained from the tournament that is held at a huge cost. It is important to respond firmly to the fundamental question of what the significance of is in the nine months leading up to the opening.