Tokyo Olympics postponed til 2021 due to coronavirus

 

International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound says the Tokyo Olympics will be postponed โ€“ likely until the summer of 2021.

Organisers face global pressure to postpone the Games for the first time in their 124-year modern history due to the coronavirus crisis, and major sporting nations Australia and Canada have already announced their withdrawal.

Japan has over 1,800 confirmed cases with 49 deaths.

โ€œOn the basis of the information the IOC has, postponement has been decided,โ€ he told USA Today.

โ€œThe parameters going forward have not been determined, but the Games are not going to start on July 24, that much I know.โ€

Earlier, London 2012โ€™s head of health and safety, Lawrence Waterman, said that organisers had to postponed the Tokyo Games until the following summer.

โ€œThese games need to be postponed, and the sooner the IOC and the Japanese government face up to this the better. Itโ€™s simply not safe to put the games on during a global pandemic,โ€ Waterman said in a statement.

โ€œPeopleโ€™s safety and health should come before the costs of delaying contracts. The London Games were the first in history to be completed without a single fatality, we set the standard on health and safety at the Olympics.

โ€œKey to that is testing venues with real crowds to iron out problems. Thatโ€™s simply not possible if people are to be two metres apart.โ€

 

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