A little more than a year has gone by since Tokyo, to tremendous fanfare, won the bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Despite the enthusiasm of delivering an Olympics billed as compact, organizers have since switched gears and left sports associations and salivating contractors in limbo with no resolution in sight.
Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe's announcement in June that he was considering revising the venue plans to nip cost overruns in the bud came as a bolt out of the blue to many national and international sporting federations.