[Reuters]Kenya’s world-beating athletes have welcomed a call by an International Olympic Committee (IOC) official to ensure Tokyo 2021 Olympics is held. Look at 2016 Rio Olympic Games, there was zika virus and it subsided. But Hellen Obiri, the world 5,000m champion, said although she welcomes the Olympics taking place next year, she expressed some fears. Yesterday, a high-ranking Olympic official Pierre-Olivier Beckers made plain that the delayed Tokyo Olympics “will be held in 2021 or not at all”. “We are convinced that the Games will take place in 2021 or they won’t take place.

Source: Standard Digital June 06, 2020 21:00 UTC