Tokyo organisers apologise for food waste, in latest Games headache

FILE PHOTO: Arisa Tsubata, a nurse and a boxer, shakes hands with a staff member of the opening and closing ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games through a fence outside the National Stadium, the main venue of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, July 26, 2021. Picture taken on July 26, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo

TOKYO (Reuters) - Organisers of the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday apologised for ordering too much food for their staff during the opening ceremony and letting it go to waste after videos of trucks carting off boxes of uneaten food went viral online.

The organisers, who face public opposition to hold the sporting extravaganza amid the pandemic and have been criticised for a series of scandals https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/tokyo-2020-plagued-by-embarrassing-scandals-gaffes-2021-07-22, came in for a fresh lashing for wasting food at the national stadium, the venue where the Games' opening ceremony took place last week.