Miyagi Pref. Puts Olympic Rowing Venue Cost at 20 B. Yen
Tome, Miyagi Pref., Oct. 15 (Jiji Press)--Miyagi Governor Yoshihiro Murai on Saturday said his prefecture will need only 15 billion to 20 billion yen to prepare a venue for the rowing and canoe sprint events in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
The cost to prepare the venue at Miyagi Prefectural Naganuma Boat Park in the city of Tome would be far lower than the Tokyo metropolitan government's projection of 35.1 billion yen, according to Murai's estimate.
Murai conveyed the estimate to visiting Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike. Murai took Koike on a tour of the boat course, an alternative to the currently planned rowing and canoe venue to be built in Tokyo Bay that a metropolitan government panel proposed to help cut the costs of the 2020 Games.
"I'm sure the good aspects of the Naganuma course have made an impression on Governor Koike," Murai told reporters after the tour.
Meanwhile, Koike said highlighting reconstruction efforts in areas hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, including Miyagi, through the Olympics and Paralympics would send "a very powerful message" to the world.
The cost to prepare the venue at Miyagi Prefectural Naganuma Boat Park in the city of Tome would be far lower than the Tokyo metropolitan government's projection of 35.1 billion yen, according to Murai's estimate.
Murai conveyed the estimate to visiting Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike. Murai took Koike on a tour of the boat course, an alternative to the currently planned rowing and canoe venue to be built in Tokyo Bay that a metropolitan government panel proposed to help cut the costs of the 2020 Games.
"I'm sure the good aspects of the Naganuma course have made an impression on Governor Koike," Murai told reporters after the tour.
Meanwhile, Koike said highlighting reconstruction efforts in areas hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, including Miyagi, through the Olympics and Paralympics would send "a very powerful message" to the world.
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