[스포츠]Bach “Cancellation of the Olympics is not an IOC mission”…Tokyo Organizing Committee “SOS to the US”

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In the wake of the coronavirus, uncertainty about the Tokyo Olympics is growing, and the International Olympic Committee and the IOC have opened an executive committee with a video connection.

Thomas Bach, chairman of the International Olympic Committee, reiterated the principle that the IOC’s mission is not to cancel the Olympics, and that it is still doing its best to host the Tokyo Olympics.

The Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee requested SOS from US President Biden.

Reporter Kim Sang-ik reports.

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IOC Chairman Thomas Bach was avoided by saying, “I will not add fuel to the speculation” when a question about the possibility of canceling the Tokyo Olympics came up at a video press conference held after the executive committee was completed.

[토마스 바흐 / IOC 위원장 : 우리의 임무는 올림픽을 조직하는 것이지 올림픽을 취소하는 것이 아닙니다. 또 선수들의 올림픽 꿈을 실현하는 것입니다. 그렇기 때문에 모든 종류의 추측에 기름을 붓지 않겠습니다.]

Regarding the possibility of a non-audience competition, they said it was still too early to answer and avoided immediate response.

Chairman Bach, who was not able to answer the question of whether he would be able to receive the audience, said he was focusing on the opening on July 23 and reaffirmed the principle that holding a’safe Olympics’ is the first task of the IOC.

[토마스 바흐 / IOC 위원장 : 만일 우리가 올림픽이 안전할 수 없다고 생각한다면, 우리는 대회를 하지 않을 것입니다 다시 말하지만, 첫 번째 원칙은 안전한 대회 준비입니다.]

Next week, the IOC decided to unveil the Corona 19 Prevention Code Regulations in Tokyo during the Olympics, including how to operate the so-called’safe bubble’, a corona clean zone.

With regard to vaccination, which is inevitable with a supply disruption, we will actively encourage it, but we will not make it mandatory for participating athletes.

Amidst this, a high-ranking official from the Tokyo Organizing Committee, skeptical of the IOC’s role theory, asked US President Joe Biden for help, saying that the Olympics were held in the United States.

The US media reported that Haruyuki of the organizing committee said, “If President Biden makes a positive statement regarding the progress of the Olympics, Japan will be given great momentum in its preparation.”

When deciding to postpone the Olympics for one year last year, the decisive moment of the declaration of absence from the competition, which was concerned about safety, was a decisive moment, so it was desperate to stop foreign pessimism, which was shaken by the support of the United States, the largest in the athletes and TV broadcasting rights, and to calm public opinion in Japan. Is read as.

Six months until the scheduled start date.

As the time for the final decision of the March IOC General Assembly, known as the Maginot Line, is approaching, the IOC and Japan, who have not yet made any decisions, are deepening even amid spreading skepticism.

YTN Kim Sang-ik[[email protected]]is.

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