The Tokyo Olympics, already pushed to next year, will hinge upon the development of a coronavirus vaccine or treatment, organising committee president Yoshiro Mori said Wednesday.
The Tokyo 2020 Games should have kicked off this Friday, but they were postponed in March as the pandemic spread across the globe.
Asked whether Tokyo could hold the Olympics next year if the situation remained unchanged, he said that “if things continue as they are now, we couldn’t”.
Yet he also said he was hopeful there would be enough progress until then. “I can’t imagine a situation like this will continue for another year.”
