Tokyo 2020, Ie: Games canceled? All false "

"There is news that the government of Japan has decided that the Tokyo Olympics will have to be canceled due to the pandemic. This is absolutely false."

In a statement to ANSA, the IOC denies that there is a desire not to play the Games next summer.

"All the parties involved - continues the international Olympic committee - are working together to prepare the Games. We will implement all the measures against Covid for the holding of safe Olympics next summer".

"At a meeting of the IOC Executive Committee in July last year, it was agreed that the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Games would be held on July 23 this year, and the program and venues of the Games have been rescheduled. as a result. All parties involved are working together - underlines the Olympic committee chaired by Thomas Bach -. We will implement all possible measures against covid and continue to work closely IOC, Organizing Committee and Tokyo Metropolitan Government to prepare and guarantee Games safe this summer ".

"Together with its Japanese partners and friends - he concludes -, the IOC is totally focused and committed to achieving a successful edition of the Olympic and Paralympic Games this year".

Bach yesterday in an interview with the Japanese agency Kyodo reiterated that the Olympics would take place as planned and that there was no "plan B".

The Japanese government has therefore denied the news circulated on the internet regarding a decision already taken by the executive to cancel the Tokyo Olympics due to the coronavirus.

In an article published by the British newspaper The Times, a Japanese government official is quoted as speaking of an implicit agreement on the impossibility of running the Olympics, explaining how the goal now - to "try to save face" - is the definition of a new date extended over time.

"We wish to disprove every conjecture reconstructed in the article," Deputy Cabinet Chief Manabu Sakai said at a conference, adding that in light of what is happening globally due to the pandemic, the government will clearly have to make a decision.

"Until that time we remain determined to do what is in our power and to move forward with the organization of the Games," Sakai continued.