Tokyo Games organisers face 'real problems' staging the Olympics next year as coronavirus infections continue to soar, senior international ...
Tokyo Games organisers face"real problems" staging the Olympics next year as coronavirus infections continue to soar, senior international Olympic official John Coates said.
Coates, Australia's Olympic chief and head of the International Olympic Committee's inspectorate for Tokyo, said organisers had to assume there would be no vaccine for COVID-19, or none in sufficient quantity, in time for the Games."We've got real problems because we've got athletes having to come from 206 different nations," Coates told a roundtable held by Australia's News Corp.
" Prime Minister Abe says Games can only happen in 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." Coates said Games organisers would need to start planning in October for what could be a"very different" Olympics if there were no signs COVID-19 was being eradicated.
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