Tokyo Olympics: Naomi Osaka says risk of staging Games must be carefully weighed

Opinion surveys have shown that most Japanese oppose holding the Games this summer due to worries about the coronavirus.

Japan's Naomi Osaka said on Sunday that while she has spent her entire life waiting to compete at the Olympics, the risks of holding the Tokyo Games amid the raging COVID-19 pandemic should continue to be carefully discussed.

Osaka, the world No. 2 women's tennis player and one of Japan's top athletes, said staging the Games should remain a topic of discussion as long as the subject was "making people very uncomfortable". "For me, I feel like if it's putting people at risk... then it definitely should be a discussion, which I think it is as of right now. At the end of the day I'm just an athlete, and there is a whole pandemic going on, so, yeah."

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga promised on Friday to fast-track the government's vaccination drive, saying it aimed to administer 1 million shots a day.

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