Full Plan For Staging Tokyo Games Expected By Year's End

IOC VP John Coates today said that organizers for the Tokyo Games “will decide by the end of the year what ‘counter-measures’ are required to hold them safely.” Coates said organizers are "throwing whatever resources are necessary" at the Games. He added, "What we wait for is to decide what counter-measures we need to go ahead with, to proceed depending on what stage COVID is at. The extent of the ceremonies, the extent of the crowd participation, any necessary quarantine when they arrive in Japan. All of those things” (REUTERS, 9/15).

Meanwhile, the Olympic cauldron in Sydney “has been set alight again” today to mark the 20th anniversary of the start of the ’00 Games in that city (SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 9/15).