Tokyo 2020: IOC chief Thomas Bach ‘very confident’ July Olympics will have fans
- In Tokyo, Bach praises coronavirus countermeasures being prepared by organisers and government officials
Speaking after meeting Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in Tokyo, Bach praised coronavirus countermeasures being prepared by organisers and government officials.
“We are putting really a huge tool box together in which we will put all the different measures we can imagine,” he said.
“Next year ... we will be able to take (the) right tools out of this tool box and apply them in order to ensure safe environment for all participants in the games.
“This makes us all very, very confident that we can have spectators in the Olympic stadia next year,” Bach said.
The Olympic chief also pledged that the IOC would “undertake great efforts” to make sure as many participants and spectators as possible are vaccinated before arriving in Japan, if a vaccine is available by next summer.