About 130,000 meals pre-ordered for Tokyo Olympic volunteers and staff members were discarded in the one month through Aug. 3, the games' organizing committee said Friday.The total accounts for roughly a quarter of all the food prepared during the period at 20 Olympic venues that the committee had looked into, it said. The Olympics, which ended Aug. 8, took place at 42 venues in and out of the Japanese capital.The investigation came after the organizing body was criticized for throwing away about 4,000 of the 10,000 pre-ordered bento boxes that were to be provided to volunteers on the day o…READ FULL ARTICLE
