The head of the Tokyo Organising Committee refused to rule out cancelling Games if coronavirus cases continue to rise. Hours after International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach had insisted cancelling the Games was “never an option”, the head of the Tokyo Organising Committee refused to rule out doing just that if coronavirus cases continue to rise. We could have drawn on the insurance that we had at the time and moved on to Paris 2024. “But in fact, cancellation was never an option for us – the IOC never abandons the athletes. The Olympic Games could have fallen to pieces.

Source: Irish Independent July 20, 2021 12:56 UTC