CDNTopStories: High-ranking Olympic official Pierre-Olivier Beckers on Saturday made plain that the delayed Tokyo Olympics “will be held in 2021 or not at all.” Read more:
The Belgian was reiterating the stance put forward by Japan and International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach that next year was the last chance to hold the Games postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.“We are convinced that the Games will take place in 2021 or they won’t take place.
Beckers suggested it was “essential” that the traditional sporting calendar emerges from its COVID-19 lockdown before allowing major sporting events like the Olympics to be staged.“We can’t envisage a similar upheaval a second time,” stressed the president of Belgium’s Olympic Committee.He said he was optimistic over the staging of the Games, rejecting any notion that it would be held behind closed doors.
Beckers heads the IOC’s coordinating commission for the 2024 Games and he said he wanted Paris “to be different” to past editions.
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