After a long stint in business as usual despite the Corona crisis, the Olympic Committee seems to have succumbed to global pressure. Worldwide, the organization, led by President Thomas Bach, is expected to announce the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.Many athletes and associations from the US and around the world, including from Israel, have put a lot of pressure in recent days and have complained that the committee intends to hold Olympic Games As planned. This is despite the fact that because of the Corona virus, many of the athletes cannot properly train for the competition, and that having an event involving so many people is impossible in the current climate.
Now, it seems that about four months before the opening ceremony that much international pressure is supposed to have done its thing. And after Euro 2020 was recently postponed a year, there is no longer any escape and the larger event, which was due to open in Tokyo on July 24, is expected to be postponed to an unknown date.
However, a contradictory report on the BBC claims that the decision has not yet been made and the Olympic Committee has set itself a four-week deadline to consider the decision and this afternoon’s meeting rejected the idea of rejecting the Olympics for now.
If you do postpone a rejection, this will be the fourth time in its history Olympic Games Not going as planned. The previous three times, the games were completely canceled because of wars: in 1916 because of World War I, and in 1940 and 1944 following World War II. Will this time the world’s biggest sporting event take place despite the apparent rejection?
