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Moving 2020 hoops to Saitama latest blow for game

Olympics | NOTES ON A SCORECARD Mar 3, 2015

Moving 2020 hoops to Saitama latest blow for game

by Jack Gallagher

The IOC's decision last week to allow the organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to move the basketball competition out to Saitama Super Arena puts an end to any hope the sport ever had of becoming high profile in Japan. The original plans had called ...

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