A senior Japanese Olympic Committee official today said that Tokyo Olympics should be delayed.
โIt should be postponed under the current situation where athletes canโt be well prepared,โ Kaori Yamaguchi, a Japanese Olympicย Committee executive board member, told the Nikkei daily, adding her voice to a growing chorus calling for Tokyo 2020 to be delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yamaguchi won a bronze medal for judo at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. She is the first JOC board member to openly call for a postponement of the Tokyo Games
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- โIt should be postponed under the current situation where athletes can't be well prepared,โ Kaori Yamaguchi, a Japanese Olympicย Committee executive board member, told the Nikkei daily, adding her voice to a growing chorus calling for Tokyo 2020 to be delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- She is the first JOC board member to openly call for a postponement of the Tokyo Games.
- A senior Japanese Olympic Committee official today said that Tokyo Olympics should be delayed.
