Organisers are ploughing ahead with the postponed Tokyo Olympics and will decide by the end of the year what “counter-measures” are required to hold them safely in the time of Covid-19, IOC Vice President John Coates said yesterday. Australian Coates heads up the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Coordination Commission for the Tokyo Games, which were delayed until 2021 because of the pandemic. “Our decision at the moment is to go ahead,” Coates said at an event marking the 20th anniversary of the 2000 Sydney Olympics’ opening ceremony. Tokyo officials have said they intend to put on the Games in 2021 even if the pandemic has not eased substantially. “First and foremost is people’s health,” Thorpe told reporters at the Sydney Games ceremony.

Source: The Star September 15, 2020 03:56 UTC