President of the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee Yoshiro Mori met Friday with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to discuss the possibility of introducing daylight saving time during the 2020 Games as a countermeasure for extreme summer temperatures.The discussion followed a decision by the International Olympic Committee to allow the marathon to be staged at 7 a.m. to lessen the likelihood of runners competing with the mercury as high as 40 C during Tokyo's sweltering and humid summer.Mori told reporters after the meeting that the prime minister said putting clocks forward one or two hours durin…READ FULL ARTICLE
