FILE PHOTO: International Olympic Committee (IOC) Vice President John Coates and President of Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic organising committee Yoshiro Mori attend their news conference in Tokyo, Japan, July 12, 2018. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo
TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games organisers have formally proposed moving the start time of the marathon races forward to avoid the worst of the Japanese capital's scorching summer heat.
The marathon events were initially scheduled to start at 7 a.m. local time but now Games organisers have asked the IAAF, athletics’ governing body, to approve moving the start time to either 5.30 a.m. or 6.00 a.m. local.
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