Tokyo Games to be new Olympic model for post-COVID era: Gov. Koike

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike said Tuesday she expects next summer's postponed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics to serve as a model for games taking place after the novel coronavirus pandemic."Following Tokyo, Paris will host the (Summer) Games in 2024 and then Los Angeles in 2028. We will create a new model that benefits the post-COVID world and I wish to pass this on to these two cities," Koike told a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan.The Japanese government has reiterated that the Tokyo Olympics, originally scheduled to take place this year but postponed in March due …READ FULL ARTICLE