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Tokyo weighs scaled-back Olympics, says governor Koike

IOC boss Thomas Bach during a past session with the media. [Reuters]

Tokyo 2020 officials are looking at ways to scale back next year's postponed Olympics, the city's governor said yesterday, amid reports the opening ceremony could be streamlined and spectator numbers cut.

Yuriko Koike told reporters that organisers were weighing up what could be "rationalised and simplified" as costs spiral for holding the first postponed Games in history.

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