Olympics: Organizers of Tokyo Games admit extreme weather a "major issue"

Organizers of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo admitted Thursday that the threat posed by extreme weather was a "major issue" as they updated National Olympic Committees on their preparations in Japan's capital."We observed unprecedented heat and typhoons last summer, and Tokyo 2020 considers those as major issues," Tokyo 2020 director general Toshiro Muto said at the general assembly of the Association of National Olympic Committees taking place at a hotel in Tokyo.Japan was hit by a record heatwave that killed 96 people in Tokyo alone in July, while other parts of the country were devastat…READ FULL ARTICLE