TOKYO: Tokyo 2020 organisers unveiled plans for a centre to monitor extreme weather, after concerns the city’s scorching summer could cause heatstroke or even deaths during the Games.
The next Olympics will also overlap with Japan’s typhoon season, and the potential for extreme conditions has become a major headache for the event after a string of weather-related disasters.
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