SYDNEY, May 9 — Senior international Olympics official John Coates said today the delayed Tokyo Olympics could end up being the greatest Games ever, coming next year as the world emerges from Covid-19 crisis. Coates, Australia’s Olympic chief and head of the International Olympic Committee’s...
Coates said he thought Tokyo could surpass even the reputation of the 2000 Sydney Games, which he helped organise and were described by then IOC chief Juan Antonio Samaranch as 'the best Olympic Games ever'. — AFP pic
“Because we all must wait longer than the already-long wait for an Olympics, the Games of Tokyo will gently but perceptibly echo the sheer joy and relief of the other delayed Olympics of Antwerp in 1920 and London in 1948,” he told the annual general meeting of the Australian Olympic Committee. The bid, centred on South East Queensland around Brisbane, had been given the official backing of the AOC in January, he said, and was now in the phase of “continuous dialogue” with the IOC’s Future Host Commission.
“I have always believed in making necessity a virtue. There is already a need for jobs and growth in the Queensland economy arising from the impact of Covid-19,” he told his online audience.
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