IOC reasserts support of on-time Tokyo Olympics start

The International Olympic Committee reasserted its policy of starting this summer's Tokyo Games on July 24 as scheduled in a conference call with the Japanese Olympic Committee and other Asian Olympic bodies on Thursday.The threat posed by the current global outbreak of the new coronavirus has made many question the wisdom of holding the Olympics as planned, but IOC President Thomas Bach has repeatedly backed Japanese officials' and organizers' assertion that the games will go ahead as scheduled and not be postponed or canceled.According to Keiko Momii, a senior JOC executive board member, …READ FULL ARTICLE