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TOKYO - Sapporo was formally approved on Friday as host of the marathon events at next year’s Summer Olympics with the reluctant consent of Tokyo’s governor, ending a showdown between the Japanese capital and the IOC over where to stage the flagship event.
At the request of IOC delegation leader John Coates, representatives from the IOC, the 2020 organizing committee, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and national government held talks on Friday aimed at reaching an amicable solution to what has become a very public spat. Coates said they had agreed at a meeting on Thursday that the decision on where to hold the marathon and race walk events rested with the IOC, adding that there would be no other venue changes in the future.International Olympic Committee delegation leader John Coates speaks with Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike prior to the start of the Four-Party Representative Meeting in Tokyo, Japan, November 1, 2019.
The IOC is determined not to repeat the experience of the athletics world championships in Doha, where the heat and humidity forced many athletes to drop out of the race despite the marathon being held at midnight. “I’m very aware of the special place marathons have in the minds of Japanese. We also didn’t want bad memories, we didn’t want people to have bad memories of Tokyo,” he said.
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