• ‘Situation is tough,’ says committee president
  • Japanese press report decision has been made

The new president of the Tokyo Olympic organising committee has hinted that foreign fans will not be allowed at this summer’s Games amid reports in the Japanese press that a decision had already been made to exclude them.

“If the situation is tough and it would make the [Japanese] consumers concerned, that is a situation we need to avoid from happening,” the committee president, Seiko Hashimoto, told reporters after online talks with the International Olympic Committee president, Thomas Bach.

Continue reading…

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

You May Also Like

Conspiracy, monetisation and weirdness: this is why social media has become ungovernable | Nesrine Malik

The royals are perennial clickbait, but the wild online bunkum over the…

Give £200 to every child for catch-up lessons – Lib Dems

Ed Davey reveals £5bn ‘listen to parents’ scheme to spend on extra…

Reading Proust aloud: ‘How can it be that deeply flawed and terrible humans have the capacity to create?’

One hundred years after his death, our daily reading shows us that…