Friday, January 22nd, 2021
The sports day
IOC also continues to believe in the Olympics in the summer
The The International Olympic Committee has denied a media report that the Olympic Games in Tokyo are due to be canceled due to the corona pandemic. "That is absolutely untrue", announced the IOC. The Japanese government had previously "completely rejected" a report by the London "Times", according to which it had come to the conclusion internally that the summer games had to be canceled this year due to the pandemic.
The "Times" had reported, citing an unspecified member of the Japanese government coalition, that there was agreement that the games, which had already been postponed by a year, were doomed to fail. IOC boss Thomas Bach had already emphasized in an interview published yesterday that he saw no reason to cancel the games from July 23 to August 8.
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