Gold medals, grey zones: Tokyo 2020 budget sparks dispute 1 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Agence France-PresseShould weather forecasting satellites or roomy black cabs with distinctive logos be included in a country’s Olympic budget? But a dispute has erupted over what exactly counts as Olympic spending. Of the 800 billion yen allocated, some 173 billion yen were considered category A or directly linked to the Games. The IOC simply forced many items off the Olympic budget to lower the publicized cost to around $12 billion,” he said.

Source: Manila Bulletin December 20, 2018 07:52 UTC