Tokyo, Mar. 8.
Ignoring uncertainties existing in some foreign quarters concerning participation in the 1940 Olympi: Games here, the Tokyo Municipal Olympiad Organizing Committee yesterday mapped out an extensive track and field construction programme, Which is to be carried out at a total cost of ¥.5,900,000 after approval is granted by the Municipal Assembly.
The plan calls for the construction ai huge stands to accommodate about 20,000 spectators in Shibaura at a zest of Y.600,000, and reconstruction at the old running track and athletic field in Shiba Park at a cost of ¥.2,000,000, It is intended to use the latter field chiefly for hockey matches. Grandstands there will seat about 10,000 spectators.
In preparation for indoor sports, big auditorium will be built at the original site of the memorial hall fo; ihe late Dr. Seilchi Kishi, former president of the Japan Amateur Athletic Federation, near the Hijiri Bridge, Ochanomidzu.
The auditorium, which is expected to cost Y.2,000,000, will contain a 150- meter track, two basket-ball courts, ne tennis court, boxing and wrestling rings and a 24-meter swimming pool.
Stands for spectators at the indoor track events and basketball games will seat 5,000, but their capacity can be increased to hold 8,000 persons if
held. boxing and wrestling matches are Stands to be erected at the swimming pool will seat 900 persons. 4 The sum of Y.500,000 will be spent or constructing an Olympic Village, where foreign athletes will be housed.
In addition to this, a big swimming pool will be constructed at a suitable place at a cost of Y.1,200,000. Grandstands with a seating capacity of. 30,000 will be erected at the pool.—Domei
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