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Tokyo 2020 trims cost estimate for Olympics

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absolute farce and fiasco.

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Robbery of taxpayers by daylight just to fan the flames of nationalism after each and every Japanese athlete’s success…

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Waste is still waste but 2021 was “The Year of Gold”, right? - Yeah, they keep ‘trimming’ it and ‘spinning it’, don’t they?:

Dec 22, 2021: https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/a-%27gold%27-year-for-some-but-not-for-many

Dec 3, 2021: https://japantoday.com/category/sports/Tokyo-Olympics-cost-¥150-bil-less-than-expected— “The total cost of the Tokyo Olympics & Paralympics was at least 150 billion yen ($1.3 billion) less than expected. 

-Aug 10, 2021: https://japantoday.com/category/features/opinions/tokyo-olympics-cost-15.4-billion.-what-else-could-that-buy

Jul 31, 2021: https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/the-olympics-price-balloon-continues-to-swell “Rounded out to about a dozen zeroes, the agreed-upon figure of the total cost to host the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics is 3 trillion yen” -

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But in the end, the Olympics and Paralympics delighted many home fans 

But it disgusted the vast majority.

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The Olympics were amazing, The athletes worked so hard for so many years, I'm happy they finally held them despite all the hardships they had to go through.

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