Half of the Japanese public think the Tokyo2020 Olympics will take place this summer, according to a poll by Yomiuri daily newspaper, less than two months before the Games' scheduled opening
The Olympicshave already been postponed by a year amid concerns over how organiserscan keep volunteers, athletes, officials and the Japanese public safe when they begin on July 23after a fourth wave of infections.
"Taking infection control measures for athletes and Games officials so athletes from the world can safely participate and to protect our people's lives and health, I think that is the premise of holding ," Suga told lawmakers. Foreign spectators are already prohibited from the Olympics and Japanese may also be kept away from what organisers promise will be a sanitised "bubble" event to minimise contagion risk.
Japanese Olympic Committee board member Kaori Yamaguchi, a judo bronze medallist at the 1988 Seoul Games, added to rancour around Japan when she said on Friday her nation had been "cornered" into pressing ahead with the Games and accused the JOC of riding roughshod over public opinion."What will these Olympics be for and for whom? The Games have already lost meaning and are being held just for the sake of them.
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