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Japan’s Government<\/strong> has been told that the contract for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games<\/a> specifies that the event must be held within 2020, allowing for a postponement from July until further towards the end of the year between October and December should the coronavirus emergency make that a safer option.<\/p>\n

Cancellation of the Games, as suggested as a more likely outcome than postponement by IOC member Dick Pound<\/strong> <\/a>a week ago, would be very costly for Japan and all down the chain of commercial interest.<\/p>\n

However, Seiko Hashimoto, Japan’s Olympics Minister<\/strong> said, in response to a lawmaker’s question in parliament, made a point of announcing that Tokyo’s Olympics contract only “calls for the Games to be held within 2020” and that it “could be interpreted as [to] allow a postponement.”<\/p>\n

The same contract also speaks to Pound’s take: the International Olympic Committee has the right under the hoisting agreement to cancel the Games.<\/p>\n

Thomas Bach<\/strong>, head of the IOC said today that preparation for Tokyo 2020 are underway for a “successful” Games, a statement fairly meaningless in terms of what could change ‘business as usual’ to cancellation in quick measure.<\/p>\n

\"tokyo2020-logo\"The reason for evergreen optimism, beyond a desire far and wide for normality to reign, is clear: the Games latest budget is 1.35 trillion yen ($12.51 billion) on vastest estimates, Japan’s government spend at 120 billion yen, to build the Olympic Stadium, alongside a 30 billion yen contribution towards the Paralympics, Hashimoto said.<\/p>\n

Japan\u2019s Board of Audit put government spending between the bid in 2013 and 2018 at 1.06 trillion yen. And all of that as stick markets tumble and the economy eases off significantly.<\/p>\n

Containing the coronavirus is a task being taken seriously in Japan: schools have been asked to close, exhibitions and other large-gathering events, sports included, have been postponed or cancelled, while Japan Para Sports Association and Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic<\/strong> organisers said today cancelled a wheelchair rugby Test event that has been schedule for this month.<\/p>\n

Japan started to look at a possible postponement until the end of the year on the day Britain ruled out taking the Games on in London in any white-knight emergency measure.\u00a0The British Olympic Association<\/strong> moved to underline confidence in Tokyo as the host city, come what may.<\/p>\n

In Britain today, a Government corona emergency plan was unveiled with a warning that there could be a\u00a0“very significant expansion” of the number of cases of coronavirus in the UK as the spring and summer unfold before things start to get better in the worst case scenario.<\/p>\n

As the cases of the virus in the UK rose to 39,\u00a0the European Union raised the coronavirus risk level in member states to “moderate to high”. The country’s worst-case scenario foresaw up to three months of further spread of the virus and then three months of decline before the emergency might be declared to be on the way to being contained ahead of a vaccine being ready sometime in the first six months of 2021.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the\u00a0IOC<\/strong>\u00a0kicked off a crucial executive board meeting on Tuesday to discuss the threat of the coronavirus to this summer\u2019s Tokyo Olympics, with Bach saying:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are all healthy and looking forward to the meeting.\u00a0We are preparing for a successful Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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