In the past week, multiple Japanese organizers and International Olympic Committee officials have said that the Tokyo Games will proceed regardless of the state of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Tokyo Summer Olympics had been set to start in July but were pushed back a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.The Tokyo Summer Olympics had been set to start in July but were pushed back a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Japan's Olympic minister, Seiko Hashimoto, says the Tokyo Olympics should go forward in 2021"at any cost." Multiple Japanese and International Olympic Committee officials have stressed in the past week that the games will proceed regardless of the state of the global pandemic. "I think we have to hold the games at any cost," Hashimoto told a news conference Tuesday, according toThe Tokyo Summer Olympics had been scheduled to start in July but were pushed back a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.that"these will be the Games that conquered COVID, the light at the end of the tunnel." "It will take place with or without COVID. The [Tokyo] Games will start on July 23 next year," Coates said. Similarly, Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee CEO Toshiro Muto said last week that the games would take place even if a vaccine were not yet available."A vaccine is not a requirement," he was quoted as saying by The Associated Press."Of course, if vaccines are developed we'll really appreciate it." Organizers and Japanese government officials are in the process of reviewing how to protect athletes and other attendees from the coronavirus. A task force organized by Tokyo 2020 had its first meeting Friday about coordinating efforts against the coronavirus. It that would need to be sorted out should the games happen when the pandemic is still active, such as testing regimes, rules of behavior in the Olympic Village, rules for spectating, and how to handle an outbreak among athletes.on Wednesday — and according to the AP, Coates"is expected to give an upbeat assessment of Tokyo's prospects." There is some evidence that the Japanese public is uneasy about holding the games amid uncertainty about what the state of the pandemic will be more than 10 months from now. A surveyfound that fewer than 1 in 4 people in Japan want the Tokyo Olympics to go forward as scheduled. More than a third of the people polled said they should be postponed, and another third said they wanted to see the games canceled.
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