Britain's Mo Farah (left) leads the Men's 5000m Round 1 during the athletics event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on August 17, 2016. PHOTO | FRANCK FIFE | AFPBritain's Mo Farah (left) leads the Men's 5000m Round 1 during the athletics event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on August 17, 2016. PHOTO | FRANCK FIFE | AFPTokyo faces a fresh battle to host the 2020 Olympics in 2021 amid the second wave of Covid-19 in Japan. The 2020 Olympics were rescheduled from last year after Japan and International Olympic Committee officials accepted defeat in March when the pandemic struck. Only 24 hours later, Koike told the Kyodo news agency that Tokyo had 1,300 new infections, beating the previous one-day high of 949 from last Saturday.

Source: Daily Nation January 03, 2021 09:00 UTC