Tokyo Olympics, postponed to 2024? Inside the organization

Maekyung.com MK Sports Reporter Ahn Juncheol

A Japanese local report said that the Tokyo Olympics’ re-acting plan is being discussed in secret.

Japan’s Tokyo Sports quoted an executive of the Tokyo Olympics Organizing Committee (hereinafter referred to as the organizing committee) on the 18th, and reported, “Starting with the Japanese government, Olympic officials are appealing for the holding, but plans B and C are on the rise below the surface.” .

“Plans B and C exist. However, neither Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga nor Yoshiro Mori will disclose. It is because there is a disturbance when it is announced.



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Can the Tokyo Olympics be held at the top? Photo =ⓒAFPBBNews = News1 Although the alternative plan to host the Tokyo Olympics has not yet been completed, a number of key personnel within the organizing committee are considering a plan to host the 2024.

It is a plan to postpone the Paris Olympics scheduled to be held in 2024 to 2028 and the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028 to 2032 each by four years.

According to the media, the plan to reenact the Tokyo Olympics is also related to the Paris Olympics. Paris Olympic sponsors are not gathering due to the corona 19 effect. After all, preparations for the competition are also being delayed.

Earlier, in an interview with Reuters News Agency on the 14th, Taro Kono of the Suga Cabinet also mentioned the possibility of canceling the Tokyo Olympics, saying, “You can go either way.”

However, at a press conference on the 18th, Minister Kato Katsunobu emphasized that “the government’s thoughts remain unchanged. For the success of the competition, the officials of the competition will work together as one”

However, Japan is currently in a situation where the Corona 19 emergency has been issued to 11 metropolitan local governments. The number of new confirmed cases in Japan a day is more than 5,000 people a day, and the cumulative number of infected people reached 331,256. [email protected]

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