International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said Thursday the governing body and local organizers have "decided" to stage the 2020 Summer Games marathon and race walking events in Sapporo in order to avoid Tokyo's extreme heat in early August."The organizing committee, together with the special IOC working group, is working hard to address these issues and how we put the interests of the athletes first," Bach said in Doha.Tokyo organizing committee chief Yoshiro Mori told reporters in Tokyo that he considers the change "unavoidable," as countermeasures against the deadly heat rema…READ FULL ARTICLE
