Tokyo Games cost $13 bil., 20% more than organizers reported

The cost of hosting last year's Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics totaled 1.7 trillion yen ($12.9 billion), a report released by Japan's audit board showed Wednesday, around 20 percent more than the amount calculated by the organizing committee earlier this year.A revision to the central government's share of costs accounted for the discrepancy, with the Board of Audit of Japan adding around 280 billion yen in games-related expenses not included in the organizing committee's final report in June.Amid ambiguity in what could be classified as an Olympic-related expense, the board, which made its…READ FULL ARTICLE