The governor of Miyagi is confident that his prefecture is capable of hosting rowing and canoe sprint events at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics despite a "negative" meeting with the organizing committee on Wednesday.
"The organizing committee gave me a list of nine reasons why they think it's difficult to use Naganuma," said Gov. Yoshihiro Murai, who talked to Tokyo 2020 organizers for an hour before traveling across the city to meet Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike. "I listened, but I think that if we all make the effort we can overcome it."
A review of venues and costs for the 2020 Games ordered by Koike late last month recommended that the proposed Umi no Mori (Sea Forest) rowing and canoe sprint venue in Tokyo be scrapped and replaced by the existing Naganuma course in Tome, hundreds of kilometers from the capital.