Tokyo 2020 President Yoshiro Mori said on Tuesday that Japan would hold the Summer Olympics regardless of the situation with the COVID-19 pandemic and was working closely with the International Olympic Committee to make them happen.“We will hold the Olympics, regardless of how the coronavirus (situation) looks,” Mori said, adding that the discussion should focus on how, not whether, the Olympics will happen.“We must consider new ways of hosting the Olympics” as a part of that, he said.
80% of people in Japan say Tokyo Olympics should be called off amid COVID-19: poll Mori added that while working together had its difficulties, Tokyo 2020 organizers and the IOC had a strong relationship.Mori was speaking at the start of a meeting with.