TOKYO – Japan’s 2020 Olympics committee may seek further vaccine donations to make the rescheduled Games as safe as possible, Tokyo 2020’s CEO said after a board meeting on Tuesday, stressing that there had been no talk of further delays.
The Olympics have already been postponed by a year amid global concerns over how organisers can keep volunteers, athletes, officials and the Japanese public safe when they begin on July 23 after a fourth wave of infections.
Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto flatly denied there had been any talk of cancellation or further postponement at the executive board meeting.
“There was no talk on that whatsoever,” he told reporters.
Instead, he spoke of…
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