Tokyo 2020
Former Tokyo 2020, Dentsu execs arrested in bid-rigging probe
Yasuo Mori, a senior official within the Organising Committee for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, is one of four executives who have been arrested as part of an ongoing probe by Japanese prosecutors…
Aoki Holdings officials plead guilty as Tokyo 2020 corruption trials commence
Hironori Aoki, founder of Aoki Holdings, along with two other former executives today (Thursday) pleaded guilty to bribing a former member of the organising committee for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as…
Hakuhodo becomes latest Japanese agency connected to Olympics bid-rigging probe
The headquarters of Hakuhodo were searched today (Monday) as Japan’s second biggest advertising agency became the latest company to be investigated in the widening probe into contracts awarded for the s…
Dentsu offices raided in Tokyo 2020 corruption probe
Offices of the Dentsu agency were raided today (Friday) by Japanese prosecutors and antitrust officials as a corruption probe continues into contracts handed out for the staging of Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic a…
Senior Kadokawa executives resign amid Tokyo 2020 sponsorship scandal
Japanese media conglomerate Kadokawa has accepted the resignations of chairman Tsuguhiko Kadokawa and vice-chairman Masaki Matsubara with the company embroiled in a corruption scandal over sponsorship…
Tokyo 2020 bribery investigation ‘widens’, Sapporo 2030 officials cancel IOC meeting
Japanese prosecutors have raided the offices of advertising firm Daiko as part of the investigation into alleged bribery within the Tokyo 2020 Olympics organising committee, according to reports
Tokyo 2020 official, Aoki executives ‘arrested on suspicion of bribery’
Japanese prosecutors have arrested former Tokyo 2020 organising committee executive Haruyuki Takahashi and three men associated with fashion company Aoki Holdings on suspicion of bribery, according to…
Tokyo 2020 cost $10.45bn, say organisers
The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (OCOG) has confirmed the staging of last year’s postponed events cost ¥1.423.8tn (€9.91bn/$10.45bn
Tokyo 2020 projected to come in $1.8bn under revised budget
The total cost of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo was $1.8bn (€1.6
Tokyo Olympics total cost ‘less than expected’ as labour costs cut
The total cost of the postponed 2020 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo could be lower than ¥1.5tn (€11.7bn/$13.3bn) as the absence of spectators helped to cut costs, according to a new report.
Biggest-ever Paralympics opens in Tokyo
The Tokyo 2020 Paralympics officially opened yesterday (Tuesday), with organisers hailing the biggest-ever athlete contingent for making it to the Games against a challenging pandemic backdrop
Tokyo Paralympics to go ahead without fans
The upcoming Paralympic Games in Tokyo will go ahead without spectators amid ongoing Covid-19 restrictions in the Japanese capital
World Athletics: Tokyo 100m finals light show based on Doha 2019 spectacle
World Athletics has explained how the spectacular projection mapping light show that set the stage for the women’s and men’s 100m sprint finals at the Tokyo Olympics over the weekend was based on a sim…
Spectators appear at Olympics in small numbers
Modest numbers of fans have been attending events at the Tokyo Olympics, taking advantage of official and unofficial gaps in the broader spectator ban
Simon Chadwick | Tokyo 2020 is not the first ‘geopolitical Olympics’, and it won’t be the last
The Olympics has always been a stage for nations to set out grand political ambitions, for better or worse. Tokyo 2020 will be no different, says Professor Simon Chadwick.
Attention turns to athletes as Tokyo 2020 begins
The Tokyo Olympics was boosted by a strong opening weekend for athletes from host nation Japan, who won five gold medals and a silver
Tokyo 2020 battles cancellation speculation and other challenges on home straight
There has been no let-up in the challenges for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in the final days before it starts