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TOKYO -- All options remain on the table -- including moving the rowing venue to a site hundreds of miles (kilometers) outside of Tokyo -- after a working group set up to review costs of the 2020 Olympics met for the first time, a top IOC official said Thursday. http:///...-maple-leafs-jersey/ .The group, made up of representatives from the International Olympic Committee, Tokyo organizers, the city government and Japans central government, is looking into various cost reductions, including moving three sports from planned new venues to existing ones.The four-party group was set up after a report from a city expert panel last month said the cost of the Olympics could exceed $30 billion -- four times the initial estimate -- unless drastic cuts are made.The panel proposed moving the rowing venue to Miyagi prefecture, 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of Tokyo, and switching the volleyball site to Yokohama Arena instead of a new gymnasium in Tokyo.Christophe Dubi, the IOCs executive director of the Olympic Games, said the group discussed that option and it remains a possibility.The options remain, Dubi said, referring to the potential relocation of the volleyball and rowing sites. The purpose of this working group was not to decide. The purpose was to study and ask further questions that will help fully clarify the situation for the benefit of all parties.Dubi said the four-party group will make its decisions at the end of November.While the organizing committee has balked at the citys cost-cutting ideas, put forth by Gov. Yuriko Koikes review panel, the IOC seems willing to listen.When you have one objective -- and it is to organize the best games possible and to leave the most possible legacy for the citizens of Tokyo, the vision of Tokyo -- any effort that goes in this direction is welcome, Dubi said.The proposal to move the rowing to an existing facility in Miyagi came after the projected cost for the original Sea Forest venue on Tokyo Bay soared to nearly 50 billion yen ($480 million), seven times the initial estimate. http:///...-maple-leafs-jersey/ . -- Yogi Ferrell orchestrates pretty much everything in Indianas offence. http:///...-maple-leafs-jersey/ http:///...-maple-leafs-jersey/ . -- Washington Redskins tight end Fred Davis was charged Thursday with driving while intoxicated, a day after he was suspended for an NFL substance-abuse policy violation. MOSCOW -- Russian investigators are pressing graft charges against a former deputy governor of St. Petersburg linked to the construction of a trouble-plagued stadium that is to host World Cup matches in 2018.The Investigative Committee said in a statement on Wednesday that Marat Oganesyan, the citys deputy governor in 2013-2015, has been detained on suspicion of embezzling 50 million rubles ($777,000) on a single contract to supply display screens for the new stadium. However, it could be only part of a much larger corruption case.Investigators said Oganesyan arranged for a friendly subcontractor to win the contract and funneled the money out via shell companies. Investigators said they have filed a motion with a local court to jail Oganesyan pending the probe.One official in the St. Petersburg city hall as well as three employees of the subcontractor are also under investigation in relation to the 69,000-seat stadium, provisionally called the Zenit Arena.Current deputy governor Igor Albin said on Twitter that the total sum of damages at the stadium ... exceeds 700 million rubles ($10.7 million), citing evidence presented to the city governments construction department.No external events will influence the construction of the Zenit Arena now: the budget for the construction is balanced and everything that is needed has been bought, Albin added.Wednesdays announcement came amid a blitz of corruption-related arrests and investigations in Russia. Late Monday, Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev was dettained over an alleged $2 million bribe, while Wednesday also saw reports of investigations at a state technology firm and a helicopter manufacturer. http:///...-maple-leafs-jersey/. The St. Petersburg stadium has taken almost a decade to build, prompting Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to publicly call it disgraceful. The stadium, which is to host a 2018 World Cup semifinal match, is set to cost more than $600 million. Until the ruble dropped sharply in value in 2014 against the backdrop of international sanctions and a low oil price, the same ruble budget was worth more than $1 billion, making it one of the most expensive soccer stadiums in history.The St. Petersburg City Hall in July fired the general contractor over repeated delays and cost overruns, also saying that authorities have gone to the police because it has allocated $39 million for the construction which has been unaccounted-for. Later than month President Vladimir Putin issued a special decree, ordering officials in St. Petersburg to speed up the construction.FIFA expects Zenit Arena to be delivered in December so that it is ready to host the Confederations Cup next year.There have also been several deaths of workers during construction. In the past 12 months, three have died in accidents, and investigators said Tuesday a North Korean man working on the stadium had died of an apparent heart attack in a workers communal area at the stadium. Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys China Cheap Jerseys From China Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic Wholesale Jerseys China Cheap NFL Jerseys China NFL Cheap Jerseys ' ' '