Senior Olympics official says Tokyo Games face 'real problems’ staging event in 2021 due to COVID-19 Globe_Sports
International Olympic Committee member John Coates attends the International Olympic Committee 135th Session in Lausanne, Switzerland, January 10, 2020.Tokyo Games organizers face “real problems” staging the Olympics next year as coronavirus infections continue to soar, senior international Olympic official John Coates said.
“We’ve got real problems because we’ve got athletes having to come from 206 different nations,” Coates told a round table held by Australia’s News Corp.“Yesterday, there was 10,000 new cases in Brazil. Very few countries are as advanced in coping with this as . In March, the IOC and Japanese government took the unprecedented decision to delay the Games, which had been due to start in July, for a year due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Coates said Games organizers would need to start planning in October for what could be a “very different” Olympics if there were no signs COVID-19 was being eradicated.
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