Tokyo organisers said Tuesday they have no 바카라B Plan바카라 in the event the Olympics need to be postponed again because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Masa Takaya, the spokesman for the Tokyo Olympics, said organizers are proceeding under the assumption the Olympics will open on July 23, 2021
Tokyo organisers said Tuesday they have no 바카라B Plan바카라 in the event the Olympics need to be postponed again because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Masa Takaya, the spokesman for the Tokyo Olympics, said organizers are proceeding under the assumption the Olympics will open on July 23, 2021. The Paralympics follow on August 24.
Those dates were set last month by the International Olympic Committee and Japanese officials after the coronavirus pandemic made it clear the Olympics could not be held as scheduled this summer.
바카라We are working toward the new goal,바카라 Takaya said, speaking in English on a teleconference call with journalists.
바카라We don't have a B Plan.바카라 The severity of the pandemic and the death toll has raised questions if it will even be feasible to hold the Olympics in just over 15 months. Several Japanese journalists raised the question on the call.
바카라All I can tell you today is that the new games' dates for both the Olympic and Paralympic Games have been just set up,바카라 Takaya said.
바카라In that respect, Tokyo 2020 and all concerned parties now are doing their very best effort to deliver the games next year." IOC President Thomas Bach was asked about the possibility of a postponement in an interview published in the German newspaper Die Welt on Sunday.
He did not answer the question directly, but said later that Japanese organizers and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe indicated they 바카라could not manage a postponement beyond next summer at the lastest.바카라
The Olympics draw 11,000 athletes and 4,400 Paralympic athletes and large support staffs from 206 national Olympic committees.
There are also questions about frozen travel, rebooking hotels, cramming fans into stadiums and arenas, securing venues, and the massive costs of rescheduling, which is estimated in Japan at $2 billion-$6 billion.
Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto addressed the issue in a news conference on Friday. He is likely to be asked about it again on Thursday when local organizers and the IOC hold a teleconference with media in Japan.
The other major question is the cost of the delay; how much will it be, and who pays? Bach said in the Sunday interview that the IOC would incur 바카라several hundred million dollars바카라 in added costs. Under the so-called Host City Agreement, Japan is liable for the vast majority of the expenses.
바카라This is impossible to say for now,바카라 Takaya, the spokesman said.
바카라It is not very easy to estimate the exact amount of the games' additional costs, which have been impacted by the postponement."
Tokyo says it's spending $12.6 billion to organize the Olympics. But a Japanese government audit published last year says the costs are twice that much. Of the total spending, $5.6 billion in private money. The rest is from Japanese governments.
(AP)