Sports: "Tokyo 2020 Olympics To Hold With Or Without Covid-19"- IOC Vice President

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Thehockeypaper.co.uk has reported that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Vice President, John Coates, has revealed that the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics slated for next summer will take place with or without COVID-19.

Though details are yet to be ironed out over spectators and whether there would be limited attendance. Coates also forecasts that the 2020 Tokyo Games will be the “Games that conquered COVID.”

The Olympic Games have never been called off outside of the world wars, but Coates has earmarked next July as a guaranteed start date for the opening ceremony.

Coates told the AFP, “It will take place with or without COVID. The Games will start on July 23 next year.

“The Games were going to be, their theme, the Reconstruction Games after the devastation of the tsunami.

“Now very much these will be the Games that conquered COVID, the light at the end of the tunnel.”

#olympics #Tokyo #2020

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