TOKYO – Tokyo Olympic organizing committee CEO Toshiro Muto spoke Thursday about the need to take “countermeasures” to combat the coronavirus at next year's postponed games.
But what measures, exactly? Muto acknowledged there is talk about holding next year's Tokyo Olympics without fans, but he did not indicate this was going to happen.
The Tokyo official was responding to a BBC interview in which International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said an Olympics without fans “is not what we want.” But Bach did not rule it out and said any such decision would take more time. “Regarding president Bach’s remarks," said Muto, speaking through an interpreter in an on-line news conference, "there are other people in Japan as well that