Organisers eyeing July 2021 for Tokyo Olympics?
Tokyo Olympics organisers are eyeing next July as a start time for the postponed Games, Japanese media reported Sunday, following historic decision to delay the event as a result of coronavirus.
Offered the ongoing pandemic and need for preparation time, the probably plan will be for the Games to get started on July 23, 2021, public broadcaster NHK stated, citing sources within the organising panel.
It came after Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike raised the theory along Friday of moving the function to a good less hot and humid season.
She argued that would make marathons and other races better to endure, meaning they may be held in the administrative centre rather than in northern Sapporo city, where in fact the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had made a decision to move them.
The Tokyo 2020 team led by Yoshiro Mori happens to be discussing possible dates with the IOC, based on the Asahi Shimbun newspaper.
On Saturday, Mori told a Japanese Tv set station that "some kind of conclusion" will be reached within weekly.
The Olympics were scheduled to open on July 24 this season with the Paralympics on August 25, but Japan announced the other day it had secured agreement from the IOC to postpone the Games -- a decision unprecedented in peacetime.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said they might be held found in around a 12 months instead as a testament to humanity's victory more than the pandemic.
The decision have been seen to open options for Tokyo, with IOC chief Thomas Bach saying that "all the options are on the table" and rescheduling "isn't restricted just to the summertime months".
In the meantime, NHK said the Olympic flame will be displayed for a month at the J-Village activities complex in Fukushima, that was used just as a foundation camp for a large number of relief workers in radiation protection fits during the 2011 nuclear disaster.
