Tokyo Olympic organizing committee president Yoshiro Mori said Wednesday he has received an apology from an executive board member who said the 2020 Summer Olympic Games should be delayed a year to two because of the coronavirus.
The president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee said Wednesday he has received an apology from an executive board member who said the 2020 Summer Games should be delayed a year to two because of the coronavirus.
Yoshiro Mori called a quick news conference at committee headquarters to shoot down the comments.
“There is no plan now to change our plans,” Mori said, speaking in Japanese.
He was referring to comments from Haruyuki Takahashi that were reported in the Wall Street Journal.
“I have spoken to Mr. Takahashi and he has apologized,” Mori said. “He certainly said an outlandish thing.”
Mori said Takahashi was speaking for himself. Takahashi is not involved in the the day-to-day running of the organizing committee, which is di