International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach on Wednesday rejected calls from Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike to expand a new four-party working group set up to review rising costs for the 2020 Tokyo Games.
Bach also warned that the group, comprising the IOC, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo 2020 organizing committee and the Japanese government, which was established at his suggestion during a meeting with Koike on Tuesday, must not be hijacked for political gain.
"This is a working group, it is not a political group," Bach told reporters after meeting with the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee. "It is a group, it is a team, that will cooperate very closely."