Olympic leaders raise hopes for safe Tokyo Games with fans

TIL Desk Sports/ Encouraged by progress this week in finding a COVID-19 vaccine and staging sports events in Japan, the IOC is getting more and more confident that next year’s Tokyo Olympics can have fans in the venues.

After the 2020 Summer Games were postponed by one year, the International Olympic Committee has put faith in progress for rapid testing for COVID-19 and vaccines to ensure that the world’s biggest sports event can take place starting July 23.

News from pharmaceutical firm Pfizer on Monday of promising trials of its vaccine followed Tokyo hosting an international gymnastics competition at the weekend.

Having seen now the different (event) tests in Japan I think we can become more and more confident that we will have a reasonable number of spectators then also in the Olympic venues, IOC President Thomas Bach said.