Olympics: Early decision needed for any delay, 2020 organising member tells TBS

FILE PHOTO: A banner for the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympics is displayed at a building in Tokyo, Japan, March 11, 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato

TOKYO (Reuters) - Any decision to delay the Olympics should be made before May, an organising committee board member told Japanese broadcaster TBS late on Wednesday, as doubts over the Summer Games may grow with the coronavirus now declared a pandemic.

Tokyo 2020 executive board member Haruyuki Takahashi's comments came just hours after its chief, Yoshiro Mori, publicly chided him for remarks he first made to the Wall Street Journal that a delay of one or two years would be the most reasonable option if the coronavirus derailed the Games.