Tokyo enters final straight in Olympics preparations

Tokyo 2020 organizers enter the final stretch of a decade of Olympics planning o...

TOKYO - Tokyo 2020 organizers enter the final stretch of a decade of Olympics planning on Friday, six months before the start of the Games, with most major wobbles in the rearview mirror.

“Everything is coming together now, and we are extremely excited,” Tokyo 2020 spokesman Masa Takaya told Reuters via email. “It has been a long journey, with some bumps here and there, but for the most part everything has gone well. Everything is where we wanted it to be with six months to go – sometimes in an even better place.”

The centerpiece of Tokyo’s new Olympics facilities is likely to be the 68,000-capacity National Stadium that was opened by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in December. In December, the World Anti-Doping Agency barred Russians from competing at major international events for four years as punishment over doctoring laboratory drug test data.

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