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Tokyo Announces Plans To Scale Down Venues Following 2020 Olympics

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government plans to scale down facilities for the 2020 Summer Games once the sports extravaganza is over, "drawing a lesson from London's post-Olympic management," according to KYODO. The main venue, Olympic Stadium, is currently undergoing a "major renovation in which its seating capacity is shrinking to 54,000 from 80,000." The Tokyo Metropolitan Government said that its Olympic Aquatics Center in the Yumenoshima district in Koto Ward, "designed to accommodate 20,000 spectators during the Olympics, will similarly be scaled down to a seating capacity of 5,000." The facility will be redesigned so it can still host int'l events "but will also serve as a training center and a public swimming pool." The Seaside Park Hockey Stadium to be built in the Oi district in Shinagawa Ward with a seating capacity of 15,000 "will be shrunk to accommodate 4,000 spectators" (KYODO, 11/12).

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