TOKYO (Agencies): Japanese government officials insisted Friday (March 13) they have no plans to alter the Olympics, including holding it without spectators, after US President Donald Trump proposed a delay over the coronavirus.
The fate of the 2020 Games, scheduled to open in Tokyo on July 24, has been thrown into doubt by the outbreak of the virus, now dubbed a pandemic.
He said Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Trump had held a phone call to discuss the outbreak as well as the Olympics. "I would say maybe they postpone it for a year," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday. Suga also said the government"doesn't envisage" either a Games without spectators or the prospect of athletes withdrawing from the event.
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