Latest - Organisers of the rearranged Tokyo Olympics are to introduce cost-cutting measures to save over $400 million as they plan for the Games next year.
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In March, the Japanese government and the International Olympic Committee postponed the Games until 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since then, the IOC have said they expect to pay $1.2 billion in additional costs because of the delay.
Spending cuts will be made to the look of the Games venues, changes to the torch relay operations and reducing the number of non-athletes coming to Tokyo.
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Australian cricketing great remembered
The life of Australian cricketer Dean Jones has been remembered at a small, private funeral over the weekend which included a lap of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, video footage posted online has shown.
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The former test and one-day batsman Jones died at 59 last month after suffering a cardiac arrest at a hotel in India where he was working as a TV commentator.
A hearse carrying Jones' handmade Indian coffin and decorated with a floral arrangement of '324', his Australian test cap number, drove a lap around the empty MCG as Elton John's "Rocket Man" played over loudspeakers.
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Ganna wins fifth stage of Giro d'Italia
Italian Filippo Ganna, the newly-crowned world time trial champion, has continued his fine run of form by winning the fifth stage of the Giro d'Italia.
Filippo Ganna. Photo: Photosport
Italian Filippo Ganna, the newly-crowned world time trial champion, has continued his fine run of form by winning the fifth stage of the Giro d'Italia.
Ganna, victorious at Imola in the recent world championships and winner of the Giro's opening time trial, gave his Ineos-Grenadiers team something to cheer about on the 225km trek from Mileto when he rode away from a group of three breakaway riders in the category one climb to Montescuro.
Portugal's Joao Almeida took third place to retain the overall leader's Maglia Rosa.
Meanwhile race Organisers have cast doubt over the cause of yesterday's fourth stage crash which left a rider with a broken back.
It was claimed the downdraft from a helicopter flying too low moved roadside barriers into the path of riders causing the crash.
However the BBC says an "external factor" may have moved them.
