FOCUS: Sapporo's faltering 2030 Olympic bid victim of Tokyo Games scandals

Japan's bid to host the 2030 Winter Olympics in Sapporo has looked less and less likely to progress with public support cratering amid court hearings and guilty verdicts over bribery and bid-rigging scandals related to the Tokyo Summer Games.The prefectural capital of Hokkaido in northern Japan is now exploring the possibility of instead bidding for 2034 or later, after the scandals that surfaced last summer forced the city and the Japanese Olympic Committee to halt promoting a 2030 bid in December.The bribery scandals have shed light on the behind-closed-door maneuvering in which executive…READ FULL ARTICLE