(Current Affairs) Sports | August - 2017

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The BCCI is planning a grand felicitation for the Indian women’s cricket team which won a billion hearts despite a heartbreaking loss in the World Cup final at Lord’s on Sunday.
The players will be presented with cheques for Rs. 50 lakh each while the support staff will receive Rs. 25 lakh each.
Efforts are also on for an interaction with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has praised the team.

Japan began the three-year countdown to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with celebrations and fanfare, even as organisers struggle to contain soaring costs and restore credibility.
Japanese celebrities and athletes dressed in bright kimonos gathered for the launch of a remake of a popular 1964 Tokyo Olympics song, as organisers promised to turn the 2020 Games into the biggest “natsu matsuri” (summer festival) ever.
The International Olympic Committee, fearful that ballooning budgets could see future Olympic bids dry up, last month praised local organisers for slashing costs.
Progress on the financial front comes after a rocky start when the initial roll-out of the centrepiece Olympic stadium was bungled, forcing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2015 to tear up the blueprints amid public anger over its price tag. A new and cheaper plan was unveiled later that year.
Japan also observed a national exercise to encourage tens of thousands of commuters to work from home, in a bid to ease rail and road congestion before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and reform the country’s workaholic culture.