Japan and IOC insist preparations for Games are on track. FMTNews Japan
TOKYO: Japanese government officials insisted Friday they have no plans to alter the Olympics, including holding it without spectators, after US President Donald Trump proposed a delay over the coronavirus.
“There is no change in the government policy in that we closely cooperate with the IOC, the organising committee, and the Tokyo metropolitan government to steadily prepare for holding the Games as scheduled,” government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told reporters. He did not say whether Trump had repeated his suggestion, made a day earlier, that the Games might need to be delayed.
Asked about the possibility of scaling back the number of spectators, Hashimoto said: “We are not thinking about that at all.”
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