- John Coates says the IOC will ‘continue to plan’ for 2021
- Views counter to Shinzo Abe’s belief that ‘it would be hard’
A senior IOC figure has played down suggestions from the Japan Medical Association that it would be “difficult” for the Tokyo Olympics to take place without a vaccine for the coronavirus, saying they were merely “an opinion”.
John Coates, head of the IOC’s coordination commission for the Olympics and a close ally of IOC president Thomas Bach, insisted that the Games going ahead were not contingent on the development of a vaccine in the next 15 months.
Written by Sean Ingle
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/apr/29/tokyo-olympics-not-reliant-on-covid-19-vaccine-senior-ioc-member under the title “Tokyo Olympics not reliant on Covid-19 vaccine, says senior IOC member”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
