tokyo olympics 2020

tokyo olympics 2020

FILE PHOTO: Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games Organising Committee (TOGOC) CEO Toshiro Muto speaks to the media after a video conference with IOC President Thomas Bach at the TOGOC headquarters in Tokyo, Japan January 28, 2021. Takashi Aoyama/Pool via REUTERS

Tokyo 2020 says to select new president as soon as possible

Organisers will set up a committee to find a replacement for Yoshiro Mori

Tokyo governor says Olympics facing 'major issue' after Mori's sexist remarks

Tokyo governor says Olympics facing 'major issue' after Mori's sexist remarks

IOC President, Thomas Bach, hosts the first Executive Board meeting for 2021 at the Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland January 27, 2021. Greg Martin/IOC/Handout via REUTERS

IOC says it is fully committed to staging Tokyo Games

The giant Olympic rings are seen through at the waterfront area at Odaiba Marine Park after postponing Games due to the outbreak of coronavirus disease (Covid-19), in Tokyo, Japan March 25, 2020. Photo: Reuters/Issei Kato

As Olympics loom, Japanese approval of Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine unlikely till May

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Tokyo Games sponsors pay $3.3 billion, but more still needed

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Japanese organisers say 2020 Games delay to cost them $2.8 billion

FILE PHOTO: A woman wearing a protective face mask, following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), walks past the Olympic rings in front of the Japan Olympics Museum in Tokyo, Japan March 13, 2020. Reuters

Tokyo 2020 organisers estimate Games postponement cost $1.9 billion

International Olympic Committee (IOC) Vice President John Coates. Photo- Reuters

Tokyo Games to decide COVID-19 'counter-measures' by end of year: IOC's Coates

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As many as 80% of venues secured for next year's Games - Tokyo 2020

The giant Olympic rings are seen through at the waterfront area at Odaiba Marine Park after postponing Games due to the outbreak of coronavirus disease (Covid-19), in Tokyo, Japan March 25, 2020. Photo: Reuters/Issei Kato

Japan's Abe says impossible to hold Olympics unless pandemic contained

The giant Olympic rings are seen in the dusk through a tree at the waterfront area at Odaiba Marine Park after postponing Games due to the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID 19), in Tokyo, Japan March 25, 2020. Reuters

Olympics Organisers must be flexible if coronavirus vaccine not ready in time, experts say

FILE PHOTO: Tokyo 2020 Olympics President Yoshiro Mori holds the Olympic Flame during a ceremony at Japan Air Self-Defense Force Matsushima Base in Higashi-Matsuhsima, Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan March 20, 2020. Reuters

Japan businessman paid $8.2 million by Tokyo Olympics bid lobbied figure at centre of French corruption probe

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2020 Games postponement signals growing power shift from IOC to athletes