Sapporo mayor to halt 2030 Olympic bid promotion, reconsider tactics

The mayor of 2030 Winter Olympic candidate city Sapporo said Tuesday his city would halt the aggressive momentum of its bid promotion efforts in the wake of scandals surrounding last year's Tokyo Olympics."We must first dispel the public's unease rather than rushing forward blindly without regard to appearances," Sapporo Mayor Katsuhiro Akimoto told a press conference held jointly with the Japanese Olympic Committee in Tokyo.A survey of peoples' feelings toward Hokkaido's prefectural capital hosting the games was held in March, but amid declining support for another Olympics, a similar surv…READ FULL ARTICLE