TOKYO – The IOC and Tokyo Olympic organizers have been shouting the message for months now, that despite the continuing pandemic, the Games will open on July 23, 2021.The volume will be turned up louder on Monday and Tuesday.
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach will be in Tokyo making the rounds, shaking hands and posing for photos in his first visit since the Olympics were postponed 7 1/2 months ago.Bach will make his point to supportive politicians, and to a skeptical public distracted by the pandemic and ambivalent about the Games.