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A senior member of the International Olympic Committee has said he “can’t be certain” the postponed Tokyo Olympics will open in just over six months because of the surging pandemic in Japan and elsewhere.
ANALYSIS: There’s just more than six months left to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
After being postponed last year amid the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, the Games are still more up in the air than a 10-metre springboard diver.
So let’s peer into the crystal shot put to see what may unfold.
This is Japan's second lockdown after the first emergency was declared in April last year.