Tokyo 2020; Tokyo Olympic stadium: Sports cathedral or white elephant? (BBC News)

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In Athens, many of the 2004 stadia now stand abandoned and overgrown. Beijing’s hugely expensive 2008 “Bird’s Nest” may have become a tourist attraction, but has been rarely used for anything else.

Even London’s “cheap” 2012 stadium is having a troubled and expensive rebirth as a football arena.

So what lessons has Tokyo taken away from all this? Huge and expensive state-of-the-art stadiums are a bad idea? Apparently not.

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