{"id":13772,"date":"2020-02-06T03:20:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T18:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/05\/tokyo-olympics-chief-says-coronavirus-could-disrupt-games"},"modified":"2020-02-06T03:20:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T18:20:41","slug":"tokyo-olympics-chief-says-coronavirus-could-disrupt-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13772","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Olympics chief says coronavirus could disrupt games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toshiro Muto \u2018seriously worried\u2019 about spread of virus with 170 days to go<\/p>\n<p>A senior Olympic official in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> has warned that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">coronavirus outbreak<\/a> could \u201cthrow cold water\u201d on preparations for Tokyo 2020, although organisers insist that there are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2020\/jan\/29\/world-indoor-athletics-chinese-grand-prix-under-threat-coronavirus\">no plans<\/a> to cancel the games.<\/p>\n<p>Toshiro Muto, the chief executive of the Tokyo Olympic organising committee, said he was concerned about the impact the spread of the virus was having in the run-up to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/olympic-games-2020\">Olympics<\/a>, which are due to open in 170 days.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/05\/tokyo-olympics-chief-says-coronavirus-could-disrupt-games\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toshiro Muto \u2018seriously worried\u2019 about spread of virus with 170 days to goA senior Olympic official in Japan has warned that the coronavirus outbreak could \u201cthrow cold water\u201d on preparations for Tokyo 2020, although organisers insist that there are no &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,914,88,882,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan","category-tokyo-olympic-games-2020","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13801,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13772\/revisions\/13801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}