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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2016.International Rowing Federation against Tokyo 2020 venue change
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randomnator
When you promise one thing to get the deal, the honorable thing to do is follow your word. Omotenashi left the building just after Japan got the games.
erbaviva
who cares what other people think? Move it to Miyagi. Those who insist on keeping the original venue, why don't you pay it yourselves? Big talk blabla nothing but air
some14some
Cost cutting or insufficient funds? i guess it is later one. Account closed, move Olympics to another country.
naturalclown123
FISA and the IOC and the world's athletes were all promised something, and now Japan says actually we can't live up to that and you blame FISA?
Moonraker
I don't think the IOC showed this much sympathy to Rio. Japan should just do what it said it would do when it won the games. No buts.
Disillusioned
Japan should be held to its pledge of being able to hold all the games within Tokyo. The cost should have been tallied before they made this pledge. The cost should be an irrelevant issue due to he pledge made by Japan. If they cannot afford to keep their pledge they should be stripped of hosting the games because it means their pledge was just a straight up lie and they used these lies to outbid the other countries in the running. Isn't that fraud?
smithinjapan
What a boondoggle.
Azrul Hakim
They complaint a lot about Brazil, even worse than this, and look they manage to held it smoothly and sucessfully, hmm sporting dramas really not interesting as much....
randomnator
JOC in Argentina by their appearance this year.
toshiko
Tokyo needs to ignore FISA. Tokyo Olympic is not FISA Olympic.
drlucifer
Soccer in the olympics is held all over the country and there has never an outcry that players miss The spirit of the olympics not living in the Olympic village. Why can't rowing be held elsewhere apart from Tokyo.