The IOC Vice-President needs to keep up the 2021 Tokyo Olympics “with or with out” Covid-19

This yr, a mess of occasions have been canceled or delayed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Postponed to 2021, the Tokyo Olympics won’t undergo a second postponement, assured the vice-president of the International Olympic Committee John Coates on Monday, September 7. He mentioned in a phone interview with AFP that the sporting occasion will happen with or with out coronavirus and can begin as deliberate on July 23, 2021..

” It would be the Games that defeated the Covid, the sunshine on the finish of the tunnel », Promised the vice-president of the International Olympic Committee, stressing that the venues are actually able to host the occasion. In addition, he recalled that the president of the impartial worldwide non-profit group, Thomas Bach, had declared earlier than the coronavirus pandemic that it was the perfect ready Olympic Games in historical past.

In addition, John Coates additionally defined that contracts with companions and resorts needed to be renegotiated whereas the commitments of occasion sponsors and broadcast rights needed to be prolonged for one yr. While these particulars are virtually all settled, the difficulty of border management in addition to the variety of spectators who can attend the opening ceremony and the Olympic occasions are nonetheless into account.

For their half, the Japanese authorities have declared that they didn’t need the Games to be postponed once more. However, the state of affairs within the Land of the Rising Sun doesn’t appear to be bettering to this point. Currently, its borders are nonetheless closed to guests and most specialists doubt the pandemic will likely be beneath management by subsequent yr. But that is not all, a number of polls point out that almost all Japanese choose as an alternative for a postponement of the Olympics.