Last updated 1 month ago | By Reuters
The Olympic rings are illuminated in front of the National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan January 22, 2021. [REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo]
Insurers are facing a $2-3 billion loss if the Tokyo Olympics are cancelled this year, amounting to the largest ever claim in the global event cancellation market, brokers say.
With less than six months until the Games are due to start, the competition will top the agenda when the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) executive board meets this week.
The Olympic body, which will meet remotely, finds itself in a similar situation to March last year, when it postponed the Games by 12 months as the COVID-19 pandemic shut down sport worldwide.
Kathy Emmons says she is hoping for a significant decrease in cases and an easing of restrictions by July or so. That may or may not include an easing of mask rules,
By Robert Kennedy
Jan 17, 2021 1:23 PM
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) â Saturday was a holiday of sorts for many Packers fans who have been itching to get back into Lambeau Field all season long. The activity in and around Lambeau Field was much more than weâre used to for a Green Bay Packers game in the 2020 -21 season.
As the Packers took on the Los Angeles Rams in an NFC divisional playoff game, thousands of fans made their way to the game â something that hasnât happened in over a year.
The Packers allowed 6,500 season ticket holders purchase tickets for the game. The move came after regular season home games were played with little to no spectators in the stands because of coronavirus concerns.
Send Tim Thorne will retire after 31 years with ArcBest Corp. of Fort Smith, the last 7 of which he spent as president of the company s ABF Freight less-than-truckload subsidiary.
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