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Olympic organisers are looking at ways of simplifying the Tokyo Games in 2021 to meet the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic that forced their postponment, Thomas Bach told AFP on Wednesday.<\/p>\nOlympic organisers are looking at ways of simplifying the Tokyo Games in 2021 to meet the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic that forced their postponment, Thomas Bach told AFP on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, said in an exclusive interview that officials were studying 200 proposals to simplify the Games.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe impact is huge, as you can imagine. It never happened that we had to organise a postponed Olympic Games, so there is no blueprint for this really mammoth task which we have to perform, and this under the very difficult circumstances of this ongoing pandemic,\u201d Bach said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we are looking, together with our Japanese partners and friends, on ways how we can simplify the organisation of the Games, how we can reduce the complexity of the Games, how we can save costs for these postponed Games.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics were supposed to begin on July 24, but in March they became the first Games in peacetime to be postponed. They are scheduled to start on July 23, 2021.<\/p>\n
The president of the Tokyo organising committee, Yoshiro Mori, said in Japan on Wednesday that the Olympic Games \u201cused to be conducted in a extravagant, grand, splendour. But the point is that in the face of COVID, would that kind of Games be accepted?\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cThe world has changed, socially, economically and medically\u2026 we are going to replan and re-position the Games\u2019 organisation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Christophe Dubi, the IOC\u2019s Sports Director, said earlier that in order to simplify the Games officials were looking at service levels and the need for goods, operations and venue management.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cFrom previous Games we\u2019ve seen that sometimes we overplan and underconsume,\u201d Dubi told reporters after a meeting of the IOC\u2019s Executive Board.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will not let any stone unturned. The result will be positive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some officials have expressed concerns that the Olympics cannot take place even in July next year if the virus is still active.<\/p>\n
In the AFP interview, Bach denied the IOC had set a deadline for a decision on whether the Games could go ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no timeline and no deadline for this. If we have learned something during this pandemic and during this crisis, it is that the issues evolve by the day, sometimes by the hour,\u201d Bach said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTherefore, we cannot set a deadline now to say, \u2018The conditions at this point in time have been as such\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are working on the success of these Olympic Games and we are concentrated on July next year, together with Japan.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will stick to our principle that these Games will be organised in a safe environment for all the participants.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Olympic organisers are looking at ways of simplifying the Tokyo Games in 2021 to meet the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic that forced their postponment, Thomas Bach told AFP on Wednesday. Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, said in an exclusive interview that officials were studying 200 proposals to simplify the Games. \u201cThe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":59786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n