'So we have to be vigilant and we have to be patient at the same time to take the right measures to ensure the safe participation of everybody in the Games.'
2021 OLYMPICS. The Olympic Rings logo is pictured in front of the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne on March 18, 2020, as doubts increase over whether Tokyo can safely host the summer Games amid the spread of the COVID-19.
Asked how the IOC might manage sports at Tokyo involving human-to-human contact without a vaccine having been found by then, Bach said:"We're one year and two months away from these Games, and then we will take all the necessary decisions at the right time relying on the advise of the World Health Organization, discussing it on our joint task force."
"But I think nobody can at this moment in time really give you a reliable answer on how the world will look like in July 2021," said Bach. "So we have to be vigilant and we have to be patient at the same time to take the right measures to ensure the safe participation of everybody in the Games," Bach added.
In the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, which has killed more than 304,000 people globally and infected 4.5 million, the IOC in March took the historic decision to postpone the Games, scheduled to open in Tokyo on July 24, until July 23 to August 8, 2021. It was the first peacetime postponement of the Games. –
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