Too Late to Change Design of Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium, Abe Says

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tokyo’s Olympic stadium couldn’t be redesigned without missing a deadline for the first international events to be held there.

Abe shared the findings of a government review in parliament Friday in response to a question about scaling back the project. The prime minister said his advisers determined that a new design couldn’t be selected and built before the stadium hosts matches at the Rugby World Cup in 2019.