FILE PHOTO: Yoshiro Mori, President of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Organising Committee, attends a news conference after giving a presentation to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) about progress towards the rearranged Summer Games next year, in Tokyo, Japan July 17, 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato
TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo 2020 President Yoshiro Mori told Kyodo News in an interview that he disliked the idea of holding the Games in empty venues without fans.
The Tokyo Olympics were due to start this Friday but because of the COVID-19 pandemic the International Olympic Committee and the Japanese government took the unprecedented decision to postpone the Games until 2021.
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