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Delaying Olympics will involve 'massive' costs, organisers say

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Tokyo 2020 president Yoshiro Mori said the challenge was unprecedented [COURTESY]

Rescheduling the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will involve "massive" additional costs, organisers of the Games conceded Thursday as they convened a taskforce to begin working on the "unprecedented" and complex task.

The historic decision to postpone the Games over the new coronavirus outbreak leaves organisers with a logistical headache as they work to shift the enormous event to an as-yet-undecided date next year.

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