Japan when the Olympics open in just under six months.Organizers and the IOC are finally going public with their planning, hoping to push back against reports the Olympics will be cancelled with Tokyo and much of Japan still under a state of emergency with COVID-19 cases rising.
Tokyo Olympics organizers, Japanese government deny report Games will be cancelled The rollout at Olympic headquarters in Switzerland is planned for Feb.
4, with Tokyo likely to present on Feb. 5.“We created four different scenarios, one that had travel restrictions, clusters — to one where the pandemic was nearly gone,” Lucia Montanarella, head of IOC media operations, explained Tuesday for a panel discussion held by the International Sports Press.