{"id":432713,"date":"2020-05-21T03:36:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T10:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=432713"},"modified":"2020-05-21T05:47:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T12:47:15","slug":"ioc-president-thomas-bach-games-will-be-cancelled-if-they-are-not-held-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ioc-president-thomas-bach-games-will-be-cancelled-if-they-are-not-held-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach: Games Will Be Cancelled If They Are Not Held In 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>International Olympic Committee<\/strong> president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/what-the-german-papers-said-thomas-bach-the-olympic-fencing-champion-facing-the-sword-he-might-fall-on\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Thomas Bach<\/strong><\/a> says the <a href=\"https:\/\/tokyo2020.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tokyo Games<\/a> would be cancelled if they are not held in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Doubt has been cast recently over whether the Olympics can go ahead as rescheduled from 23 July 2021 in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo 2020 president <strong>Yoshiro Mori<\/strong> and <strong>Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto <\/strong>both suggested\u00a0in April that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/tokyo-2020-ceo-muto-there-are-no-guarantees-the-games-will-go-ahead-in-july-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Games would be scrapped if they do not take place next year<\/a> while Japanese\u00a0<strong>prime minister Shinzo Abe<\/strong> said they cannot take place unless the pandemic has been contained.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_204805\" style=\"width: 353px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204805\" data-attachment-id=\"204805\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/23-positive-doping-retests-from-2012-london-olympics\/thomas-bach-ioc-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/thomas-bach-ioc-e1584411831778.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1100,709\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"thomas-bach-ioc\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;July 15, 2020 &#8211; 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