01/21/2021 10:44 PM
Clarín.com
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Updated 01/21/2021 10:50 PM
With the coronavirus in full regrowth worldwide and vaccination just in its initial phase, the calendar
begins to play against the Tokyo Olympic Games
.
To such an extent that, according to the British newspaper
The Times
, the government of Japan has
already decided to definitively cancel
the Olympic event, which is scheduled to begin on July 23.
According to The Times, which cites a senior Japanese government source, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has already been informed that
there are no sanitary guarantees for the Games
, which were postponed last year.
Along these lines, Tokyo's intention would be to
run to organize the 2032 edition
.
The decision would have achieved a high consensus among the Japanese authorities.
In this way, the next Olympic event
would only be in Paris 2024
.
Then it would be the turn of Los Angeles, in 2028. And in 2032 the Games could return to Tokyo, as long as the Japanese capital
wins the election for its organization
.
According to
The Times
, the decision to permanently cancel the Games is almost final.
"
Nobody wants to be the first to say it
, but the consensus is that it is too difficult. Personally, I do not think they will be held," the senior Japanese government source told the British newspaper.
Despite the publication of
The Times
, the head of the IOC, Thomas Bach, was optimistic and assured that
there is "no reason"
to think that the Games will not be played, while affirming that the entity
does not have a plan B
before the evolution of the pandemic.
"We have no reason - at this time - to think that the Tokyo Olympics will not start on July 23 at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium," Thomas Bach said in an interview with Japan's Kyodo news agency.
"That is why there is no plan B and that is why we are fully committed to making these Olympic Games
safe and successful,
" added the IOC head.
"The holding of the Games
is on an inflexible course
and, at this stage,
we are not discussing anything else,
" said its general director Toshiro Muto in a recent interview with the French agency AFP.
The version about the cancellation of the Games is known while Japan is going through a
complicated health situation due to the coronavirus
: the authorities reintroduced the state of emergency after a record number of cases in much of the territory, including the city of Tokyo and its surroundings.
A recent survey among the Japanese population, meanwhile, revealed that
more than 80% of those consulted
prefer a new postponement or a definitive suspension of the Games.
