The 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics will be a compact games, with roughly 75 percent of the sports venues within 8 km of the Olympic Village, according to the official plan.
“The biggest selling point in Tokyo’s plan is ‘Athletes First’ — compactness in the placement of the Olympic Village and the venues,” Nobumoto Higuchi, acting secretary-general of the Tokyo 2020 Council said in July.
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