Games 'will be safe' says IOC's Coates

By Sakura Murakami
Updated May 21 2021 - 9:54pm, first published 9:50pm
IOC vice president John Coates says it is 'clearer than ever' that the Tokyo Olympics will be safe.
IOC vice president John Coates says it is 'clearer than ever' that the Tokyo Olympics will be safe.

With just nine weeks until the start of the Olympics in Tokyo, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Friday sought to calm fears in Japan that the Games would present an additional burden to a medical system already strained by the pandemic.

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