Tokyo: The head of the Thomas Bach Olympics revealed “doubts” and “night without sleep” over the Tokyo match which was postponed on Tuesday as the opening ceremony that was approaching after a year and Coronavirus Chaos who had made them very unpopular with Japanese society.
Bach, speaking in the International Olympic Committee session in Tokyo, said that unprecedented steps to postpone the game had proven to be more complicated than he thought.
The opening ceremony of the build-up until Friday has been very rocky, with Tokyo still under emergency and public opinion consistently contrary to the match, most of which will be held without spectators.
“Over the past 15 months we have to take a lot of decisions about very uncertain reasons.
We have doubts every day.
We started and discussed.
There was a night without sleep,” Bach said.
“It also burdens us, weigh on me.
But to get to today we have to give confidence, it must show the way out of this crisis,” he added.
Bach has drawn protests scattered during his visit to Japan, where the latest poll in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper showed 55 percent of respondents who opposed holding this summer match.
Four people have tested positive in the Olympic village, raising fears that the entry of thousands of athletes, officials and media will add a surge in cases in Japan.
US teen gymnastics who live outside the village are also between 71 cases related to the game so far.
Olympic and Japanese officials have defended the match firmly, which are held in a strict “bubble” biosekure with daily testing.
Eighty percent athletes in the game have been vaccinated.
“We can finally see at the end of the dark tunnel,” Bach said, added: “Cancellation has never been an option for us.
IOC never left athlete …
We did it for athletes.” Bach spoke on an unusual IOC session, where delegates who used masks sat socially on individual tables and podium microphones removed after each speaker.
This reflects an Olympics which will primarily take place at an empty stadium with a sound of a crowd recorded, starting with the opening ceremony at the Olympic Stadium with a capacity of 68,000.
The ceremony will take place without the music of Oyamada ‘Cornelius’ Keigo, which stops on Monday after protests for past interviews where he describes the suppression of defective schoolmates.
“I have realized that accepting the offer of my music participation at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics did not have consideration for many people,” he said in a statement.
Toyota’s main sponsor, the world’s largest carmaker, also canceled the plan to run the Olympic brand-related campaign in Japan, as a senior official said the game did not have a “understanding” of the public.