(ATR) The IOC team inspecting the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics opens its latest meeting midday Wednesday at the organizing committee headquarters.
After spending two years reshaping the venue landscape for economy and sustainability, there are few changes left to make. Now as they head toward the final years to the Games, the IOC commission can turn its attention to the details of staging the Olympics.
After the opening of the meeting, the 18-member coordination commission, led by IOC vice president John Coates, makes its first venue visit in a while. The commission will see the Aomi Urban Sports Venue, site for skateboarding and sport climbing, located on the shore of Tokyo Bay.
The two are among the five sports specifically approved for the Tokyo Olympics. Karate, surfing and baseball/softball are the others. Of those sports, baseball/softball is still hoping to win approval for a venue in the Tokyo area. Currently a stadium in Yokohama and one in the Fukushima earthquake zone are planned for the ball and bat sports.
Coates and the IOC have been pressing Tokyo to find ways to further lower costs beyond the venue changes. A few weeks ago Tokyo 2020 adopted a $12 billion budget. At the urging of the IOC, that sum is now broken down into categories that make the distinction between infrastructure costs and the $5 billion in operating expenses covered by revenues generated from the Games.
Carlos Nuzman will be making his first meeting as a member of the commission. He wasnamed to the group to a seat traditionally held by a leader of the previous Summer Games. Nuzman, president of the Brazilian Olympic Committee, is also the president of Rio 2016, the organizing committee for the 2016 Olympics and Paralympics that’s now winding down.
With the close of Rio 2016, the Tokyo Commission is due to begin twice a year inspections. The commission will wrap up its visit Friday afternoon with a press conference.
Along with Coates and Nuzman, the commission includes IOC members Alex Gilady (Israel), Prince Feisal Al Hussein (Jordan), Mikaela Cojuangco Jaworski (Philippines), Kirsty Coventry (Zimbabwe), Anita DeFrantz (USA), Guy Drut (France), Habu Gumel (Nigeria), Nicole Hoevertsz (Aruba), Robin Mitchell (Fiji), Lydia Nsekera (Burundi), Irena Szewinska (Poland) and Zaiqing Yu (China).
Other members of the commission include IAAF president Sebastian Coe, International Paralympic Committee representative Andrew Parsons and Francesco Ricci Bitti, president of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations.
Written by Ed Hula.
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