All-Japan committee meets to promote Sapporo Olympic bid

Yasuhiro Yamashita, the head of the Japanese Olympic Committee, acknowledged the biggest stumbling block to holding the Olympics is the billions in costs.

More money after Tokyo Olympics, do they even make good return of money from Tokyo Olympics?

What a stupid idea!

Oh look, another bottomless pit.

Yamashita thinks that the cost is a stumbling block? More like a dang wall. And no referendum in Sapporo or Hokkaido regarding the games? Idiots.

No public referendum: that tells you all you need to know. Pass on the Olympics.

Maybe Ukraine will get the bid,their leaders,think they deserve it

If Sapporo wins this bid, a year before the Olympics, there will be a new pandemic!

I wish AP would stop writing this bs and focus on something meaningful

Sapporo looked at the financial burden from the Tokyo Olympics and said 'Yes, we want some of that'. And Vancouver again? Headed by Canada's First Nations? Sapporo had better start getting the Ainus out of the cupboard.

"However, in another breath on Tuesday at a so-called “All Japan” meeting to promote Sapporo's bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics, he said that if the northern Japanese city lands the Games, little new construction will be needed — a major expense for every Olympics."

That's also what they said about Tokyo, before tearing down a perfectly good stadium to build a ridiculously expensive new one, and then sent costs BILLIONS above what they promised. They will do that here too, guaranteed.

No. No more Japan based Olympics.

no.

Give all the Games back to Greece.

With the success that the Tokyo games were, the Sapporo games could be almost as good! (Sarcasm

The only reason that Sapporo hosting the Winter Games would get support from me is due a rather personal self interest...

One of my daughters plays Hockey and she's already a part of Japan's youth hockey program. So at the current projection, she would be able to represent Japan in her home city and in front of her family..

@KariHaruka. What city? Tomakomai? Kushiro? I reside in Tomakomai! Great youth hockey programs but the parents have to work very, very hard….especially the wonderful mothers!

@Sam Watters. We're currently living in Tokyo.

I agree. Supporting our children on their Hockey ambitions requires a lot of hard work and dedication. I find it so worthwhile though! (and also makes me appreciate my parents who also did the same for me when I was playing youth hockey)

The official cost for last year's delayed Tokyo Olympics was $13.6 billion, although government audits suggest it may have been much more. 

At least 60% was public money.

And at least 100% was NOT given back to be used for the public.

Technical teams from the IOC have visited Salt Lake and Vancouver in the last few weeks. The three-person teams have not offered comment. A team is expected to visit Sapporo later this month. No visit to Spain is known to be planned.

BOY! Must be nice to have that Job. Just go sightseeing for free and get paid by the IOC AND get bribes to host the Olympics! what a life.

The official cost for last year's delayed Tokyo Olympics was $13.6 billion, although government audits suggest it may have been much more.

Shouldn't we at least know how much it cost before committing to more?

At least 60% was public money.

AT LEAST?? And the public doesn't get a SAY??

Sapporo, which held the 1972 Winter Olympics, is likely to also use facilities from the 1998 Nagano Winter Games. Nagano just recently paid off the debt from holding those Games.

Took them a quarter of a century to pay off Nagano, we still don't know the actual expense of Tokyo, and NOW they want Sapporo?? Are they insane?

Referendums have killed many Olympic bids — particularly in Europe — with the public seldom approving when asked.

So basically host them undemocratically, and make the public pay for them- lining Bach and whichever city's officials' pockets with the hard working stiffs paying for everything.

Makes sense with that scumbag Bach in control.

I would have thought the disrespect and insult he showed the Japanese leadership and Japan in general by saying the Olympics were going to be held even if we had Armageddon whilst in the middle of a pandemic that saw cases and deaths rise thanks to his desire to cash in would have him granted persona non grata here, but NO.

Japan, for all their nationalist chest thumping BS and Hubris, really like getting slapped around by westerners like Bach and coming back for more.

Go figure.