President of the Olympic Committee: Games will be eliminated & # 39; if not realized in 2021 - News
In an interview with the NikkanSports On Tuesday, Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Organizing Committee chairman Yoshirō Mori said the Tokyo Olympic Games will be "scrapped" if they cannot be held in 2021. Mori cited previous games that had been canceled due to circumstances. . mitigating, like war. However, he added that the Tokyo Olympics will have more value than previous games after "winning the fight" against the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
The Tokyo Olympics were originally scheduled from July 24 to August 9, 2020, followed by the Paralympic Games from August 25 to September 6. reprogrammed from 23 July to 8 August and from 24 August to 5 September next year, respectively. The International Olympic Committee (IOC), the organizing committee for the Tokyo Games and the Tokyo metropolitan and Japanese governments have agreed on the timetable.
sources: NikkanSports RTÉ, Forbes (Marley Coyne)
