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英语文摘:Tokyo 2020 remains hopeful of unchanged Games

Source: Xinhuanet    2020-04-30  我要投稿   论坛   Favorite  

TOKYO, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Organizers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games said on Friday that the preparation for the July 24 Games will continue under mounting pressure due to the worsening global spread of COVID-19.

Japan's national broadcaster NHK reported that the Tokyo 2020 committee issued the comment after US President Donald Trump had suggested delaying the Games for a year.

"The committee, the IOC and the IPC hope to continue their preparations for holding safe Games from July as scheduled in cooperation with the Japanese government, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and others," NHK reported.

The committee said it will do so while "closely watching the situation and taking advice from the World Health Organization (WHO)".

Trump on Thursday told reporters at the White House that postponing the Games for a year would be better than seeing "empty stadiums all over the place."

"I think, if you cancel it, make it a year later, that's a better alternative than doing it with no crowd," he said.

Trump talked to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by telephone early on Friday morning, Japan time, the NHK said, but did not reveal whether they touched upon the Olympic Games.

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary and government spokesman Yoshihide Suga reiterated on Thursday that the Games will be held as scheduled after the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic.

The IOC chief Thomas Bach also stressed in Olympia, Greece at the flame-lighting ceremony that the Games will go ahead as planned.


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