Seiko Hashimoto, chairman of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games Organizing Committee, is holding a press conference in Tokyo on the 5th. yunhap news
The Kyodo News Agency and NHK reported that the policy was officially decided not to accept foreign audiences during the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games held in July this year.
The Japanese government, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Organizing Committee of the Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and the International Paralympic Games Committee (IPC) held an online five-party meeting on the afternoon of the 20th and officially decided not to accept foreign audiences. With this, the Tokyo Olympics is expected to be the first Olympics to be held without foreign audiences.
It seems that the decision was made as the situation of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) around the world is still severe and spread to the mutant virus.
The online five-party conference was held by Seiko Hashimoto, chairman of the organizing committee of the event, Tamayo Marukawa, the Japanese government Olympic supervisor, Yuriko Koike, Tokyo Governor, Thomas Bach, IOC chairman, and Andrew Parsons IPC chairman. Attended.
Due to the policy of not allowing foreign audiences to enter, only people living in Japan can watch the Tokyo Olympics. Earlier, the Tokyo Organizing Committee reported that it had already sold about 1 million tickets to overseas spectators. Tickets that have already been sold overseas will be refunded. They gave up the profits of overseas tickets and played the competition only with the domestic spectators.
The Associated Press said, “Due to the spread of Corona 19 in Japan, skepticism about hosting the Olympics and watching overseas spectators was widespread.”
In addition, the Japanese government and the organizing committee decided not to accept the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic volunteer groups residing abroad in principle.
The upper limit for the audience at the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games will be decided in April.
The Japanese government and the organizing committee are proposing three measures, including: ▶No spectator upper limit ▶50% spectator cut, ▶no spectator, and it is highly likely to be decided as a 50% reduction in spectators, Japanese media reported.
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