The International Olympic Committee has retracted its claims that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had agreed to absorb some of the additional costs associated with rescheduling the Olympic Games.
The embarrassing withdrawal of the claims from the IOC website came at the behest of the local organizing committee amid widespread backlash in Japan. Abe’s government is currently drafting a stimulus and economic recovery package to stave off the worst effects of the coronavirus pandemic while also working on rescheduling the Games.
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