IOC confident of safe Tokyo Games, too early for deadlines

The International Olympic Committee has confidence in its preparations and in Japanese government support for next year’s Tokyo Olympics but said all scenarios would be discussed in the coming weeks amid the ongoing pandemic.

IOC President Thomas Bach says that his organisation was committed to delivering a safe Games and had the full support of the Japanese government following the resignation of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, but the look of next year’s Games was still unclear.

He says in the coming weeks you will see important and intensive discussions taking place with regard to different scenarios to COVID-19 countermeasures.

The Tokyo 2020 Games were postponed to next year in an unprecedented decision in March as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe.

[Source: Reuters]