TORONTO — Canadian lawyer and long-standing IOC member Dick Pound says if there was a drop-dead date for cancelling or postponing the Tokyo Olympics, that day has passed. Pound reiterated a comment . . .
Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko received Covid-19 vaccinations earlier this week. Aged 87 and 86 respectfully, they are two of six imperial family members who received the vaccine. Princess Nobuko, Princess Hisako and Prince Hitachi and his wife, Princess Hanako, also got their jabs. Seven Imperial Family members are eligible, but 97-year-old Princess…
The answer is almost certainly “yes.”
Senior International Olympic Committee member Richard Pound was emphatic in an interview with a British newspaper.
“Barring Armageddon that we can’t see or anticipate, these things are a go,” Pound told the Evening Standard.
Tokyo is under a COVID-19 state of emergency, but IOC Vice President John Coates has said the games will open on July 23 – state of emergency, or no state of emergency.
As an exclamation point, Australia’s softball team – the first major group of athletes from abroad to set up an Olympic base in Japan – arrived in Tokyo on Tuesday.
One of Japan's largest newspapers, The Asahi Shimbun, published an editorial on Wednesday, May 26 calling on Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to reconsider holding the Tokyo Olympics, which is set to commence in less than two months despite rising COVID-19 cases and public opposition. “It is simply b