‘Can I go to the Tokyo Olympics?’… Decision on acceptance of overseas spectators during this month

On the 3rd, Thomas Bach, Chairman of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Chairman Andrew Parsons, Chairman of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), Seiko Hashimoto, Chairman of the Tokyo Olympics Organizing Committee, Yuriko Koike, Tokyo Governor, Marukawa Tamayo, and Japan’s Olympics, held a five-party recall meeting. have. © AFP=News1

Officials at the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games decided to decide within this month whether to accept foreign audiences for this event.

According to TV Asahi on the 4th, the day before △ Thomas Bach, Chairman of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) △ Chairman of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), Andrew Parsons △ Seiko Hashimoto, Chairman of the Tokyo Olympics Organizing Committee, △ Yuriko Koike, Governor of Tokyo △ Marukawa Tamayo, Japan Olympics This agreement was reached at the participating five-way video conference.

After discussing for about an hour and a half, they decided to decide whether to accept overseas audiences during this month and the upper limit of the number of audiences to be within next month.

Marukawa said, “The mutant virus infection cases started appearing in January, but we cannot predict what will happen in the future.”

He added that since the torch relay begins on the 25th, there are a number of options, including making a decision before that.

Meanwhile, regarding some media reports that the Japanese government is considering not accepting foreign audiences, Governor Koike replied, “I am not familiar with such reports, and there was no such thing in the conversation we exchanged today.”

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