TOKYO (AFP): The postponed Olympics must be held next year "by all means", Tokyo's governor said Wednesday (Sept 9), becoming the latest official to insist the event is feasible despite the coronavirus pandemic.
Yuriko Koike's remarks, at an event hosted by Kyodo news agency, come after International Olympic Committee vice-president John Coates told AFP that the Games would go ahead in 2021 "with or without Covid".
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