Games organizing committee clock is ticking

Yoshiro Mori, former prime minister and the president of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, speaks at a reception at the 2014 JOC Japan House in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 10. | KYODO

By Masaaki Kameda
Staff Writer

Feb 17, 2014

With the organizing committee for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics up and running, preparations for the mega-project have commenced. The main hurdles it faces are how to amass the vast sums of money needed to stage the games and the personnel needed to run them. There is also the task of maintaining public interest in the event until 2020.

Here is a rundown of the key players on the committee and its main tasks for the next six years.

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Games organizing committee clock is ticking

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