A senior Olympics official has warned that holding the postponed Tokyo Games next year faces
John Coates, the International Olympic Committee’s pointman for Tokyo 2020, indicated that officials would start deciding in October if and how the pandemic-hit Games could go ahead in July 2021.
“We can’t postpone it again and we have to assume that there won’t be a vaccine or, if there is a vaccine, it won’t be sufficient to share around the world,” he said. “We’ve got real problems because we’ve got athletes having to come from 206 different nations,” said Coates.
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