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Thursday, Jun 19, 2025
Tokyo organising committee CEO Toshiro Muto said it's impossible to predict where the world will be with the COVID-19 pandemic in July, 2021, when the rescheduled Games are expected to begin.
The deadline for final entries has been revised to July 5, 2021.
The Olympics were due to begin on Friday with an extravagant opening ceremony in the National Stadium but the Games have instead been delayed until July 23, 2021, because of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Japan and the International Olympic Committee postponed the Tokyo Games until 2021 in March because of the coronavirus pandemic.
John Coates, the head of the IOC's inspectorate for Tokyo, has said a lack of a defence against the coronavirus threatened the Games and organisers had to start planning for what could be a "very different" Olympics.
With less than five months to go until the scheduled start of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on July 24, questions have been raised as to whether the Games can go ahead.
Stefanidi's comments were echoed by Britain's heptathlon world champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson, who said she is returning home from a locked-down France and feels under pressure to train for the Tokyo Olympics.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the government would continue with preparations to hold the July 24 to August 9 Games as scheduled, working closely with organisations like the International Olympic Committee.
The Olympic body has refused to publicly consider cancellation or postponement as possible options, even as other major events including soccer's Euro 2020 and Copa America and the French Open tennis Grand Slam announced postponements.
The International Olympic Committee said on Sunday after an emergency meeting that it is stepping up its "scenario planning" for the 2020 Games due to start on July 24, including a possible postponement.
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