“It can’t be said that the announcement of a pandemic would have no impact… But I think cancellation is unthinkable.”
Tokyo 2020 president Yoshiro Mori speaks to reporters during a press conference in Tokyo on March 11, 2020. – Preparations for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics this summer are going ahead “as scheduled,” organisers insisted while acknowledging they are “concerned” about the spread of the new coronavirus.
Doubts are increasingly being raised over whether the Olympics can be held as scheduled from July 24 to August 9. Koike vowed to work with the IOC and Tokyo 2020 organisers on what she described as a “global issue”, promising to devote her “utmost efforts” to hold the Games. In Italy, the hardest-hit European country, all sporting events including Serie A football have been suspended until April 3.
Olympic qualifying tournaments in several different sports have also been cancelled, postponed or moved to different countries. But Mori dismissed that option, as did Japanese Olympic minister Seiko Hashimoto, who told a parliament committee that postponing or cancelling the Games was “inconceivable”.
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